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HISTORY 


OF 


Hanover  Academy 


BY 


REV.  D.  B.  FORD 


Author  of  "  New  England's  Struggles  for  Religious  Liberty,"  etc. 


BOSTON 

H.  M.  HIGHT,  PRINTER 

319  Washington  Street 

1899 


Price,  fifty  cents  :  sixty  cents  by  mail 


With  great  pleasure 

do  I  dedicate  this  volume 

to  my  friend 

eihn  ^mib  (Salmonb)  Sulbcster 

by  whose  munificence 

I  am  enabled  to  publish  this   work 

at  a  price  which  is  less  than  cost 


Hanover  Academy,  as  compared  with  many  of  our 
higher  seminaries  and  colleges,  presents  some  advan- 
tages to  the  writer  of  its  biography.  In  the  first  place, 
while  much  of  its  history  may  have  been  lost,  yet  its 
record  has  not  in  general  been  so  darkened  bv  the  obscu- 
rity of  a  far  distant  past  as  to  furnish  any  insuperable 
difficulty  to  its  historian.  Its  existence  does  not  ante- 
date the  century  in  which  we  live,  and  a  venerable  neigh- 
bor friend  of  mine,  a  stockholder  in  our  Academic  prop- 
erty, was  born  (1805)  before  Hanover  Academy  was  built 
or  thought  of.  Then,  again,  the  Academy  has  had  com- 
paratively but  a  limited  number  of  pupils.  If  it  had 
numbered  yearly  its  four  or  five  hundred  students,  as 
Phillips  Andover  Academy  now  does,  any  minute  histo- 
ry of  it  would  be  huge  and  unwieldly,  and  any  condensed 
account  of  it  would  be  meagre  and  uninteresting.  Han- 
over Academy  has  lived  long  enough  and  has  had  num- 
bers enough,  both  of  teachers  and  scholars,  to  furnish 
an  interesting  variety  of  historic  description.  I  have 
sought,  so  far  as  I  was  able,  to  make  an  interesting  work, 
but  never  at  the  expense  of  decency  or  of  truth.  I  have 
endeavored  to  write  history,  and  even  Don  Quixote,  of 
whom  some  remarkable  vagaries  are  related,  says  that 
"History  is  a  kind  of  sacred  writing,  because  truth  is 


O  PREFACE. 

essential  to  it,  and  where  truth  is,  there  God  himself 
is ;"  but  he  goes  on  to  say  that  "there  are  men  who  com- 
pose books  and  toss  them  out  into  the  world  like  frit- 
ters." Again  he  says  :  "  Let  every  man  take  care  how 
he  talks,  or  how  he  writes  of  other  men,  and  not  set 
down  at  random,  higgedlv-piggedly,  whatever  comes  into 
his  noddle."  I  think  the  following  pages  will  give  evi- 
dence that  I  have  sought  after  facts,  and  that,  as  a 
result,  the  reader  will  have  before  him,  in  general,  a  veri- 
table history  of  Hanover  Academy.  For  the  merits  of 
this  work,  whatever  they  may  be,  I  am  indebted  to  a 
very  large  number  of  correspondents  and  friends,  to  all  of 
whom  I  return  my  hearty  thanks.  Of  those  who  have 
been  especially  helpful  to  me  in  certain  ways,  I  may 
mention  the  names  of  Sara  T.  Chaddock  of  Portland, 
Me.,  Mrs.  Abby  L.  Tyler  of  Boston,  Mrs.  Annie  Rich- 
ards Prime  of  Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  Hon.  Charles  A.  Reed  of 
Taunton,  Mr.  George  Conant  of  Pasadena,  Gal.,  William 
P.  Duncan  of  Boston,  Mrs.  Royal  Cheney  of  Worcester, 
Mrs.  Luther  Briggs,  of  Neponset,  Dr.  Henry  L.  Sweeny 
of  Kingston,  N.  H.,  and  L.  Vernon  Briggs  of  this  place. 
Mr.  Briggs  has  kindly  loaned  me  many  papers  relating 
to  our  Academy  students,  which  he  doubtless  will  de- 
posit in  some  of  our  public  institutions.  The  many  full 
and  interestinor  letters  relatinc:  to  teachers  and  scholars 
which  I  have  received  but  which  could  not  be  copied  in 
full,  I  shall  probably  place  in  the  archives  of  the  New 
F^ngland  Historic,  Genealogical  Society,  i8  Somerset 
street,  Boston. 


PREFACE.  7 

Some  of  our  Academy  pupils,  I  fear,  will  be  disap- 
pointed in  not  finding  their  names  recorded  in  this  work. 
I  can  only  say  that  no  one  would  have  been  more  glad 
than  myself  to  have  given  the  names  and  biographical 
sketches  of  all  the  Academy  students,  but  the  doing 
of  this,  owing  to  the  absence  of  catalogues  and  lists, 
were  an  utter  impossibility.  The  difficult  matter  of 
ascertaining,  giving,  withholding  and  omitting  names 
has  been  my  most  serious  trouble,  as  perchance  the 
reader  w^i]l  discern  before  reaching  the  close  of  the 
book. 

A  word  in  regard  to  the  portraits  of  the  teachers.* 
Several  of  them  have  been  recently  taken,  and  I  fear 
some  of  our  older  scholars  will  fail  to  recognize  in  them 
the  teachers  of  their  youth.  The  truth  is,  w^e  all  greatly 
change  by  advancing  years,  and  had  we  not  seen  our 
faces  in  a  mirror  since  we  were  young,  we  should,  as 
strangers,  have  to  be  introduced  to  ourselves. 

And  now  it  only  remains  for  me  to  say  to  my  readers 
good-bye  and  farewell.  This  will  doubtless  be  vay  finis 
effort  in  historic  writing,  and  it  is  not  without  feeling 
that  I  send  this,  probably  my  last,  work  to  the  press.  If 
my  friends  shall  receive  this  work  kindly  I  shall  be 
thankful  to  have  left  with  them  this  Souvenir  (imper- 
fect though  it  be)  of  a  greatly  cherished  past. 

David  B.  Ford. 

Hanover,  Mass.,  Nov.  lo,  l 


*A11  the  portraits  in  this  work,  with   one  exception,  are   from  the    Suffolk    Engraving 
Company  of  Boston. 


PART  I. 
HANOVER   ACADEMY,    1808-18. 

Its  First  Buildincr  and  Teacher. 


It  is  a  matter  of  deep  regret  that,  owing  to  the  absence 
of  records  and  the  passing  away  of  men,  much  of  the 
history  of  Hanover  Academy  must  forever  remain  un- 
written and  unknown.  The  fathers,  and  the  mothers, 
too,  where  are  they?  and  to  whom  or  to  what  can  we  go 
for  full  information  in  regard  to  its  early  teachers? 
Some  of  them  taught  but  for  a  brief  period,  and  we 
scarcely  know  more  than  their  names,  and  the  probable 
time  of  their  teaching.  To  this  statement  there  is,  how- 
ever, one  noted  exception. 

Of  the  Rev.  Calvin  Chaddock  we  have  considera- 
ble information.  Not  only  was  he  the  founder  and  first 
teacher  of  the  Academy,  not  only  was  his  term  of  ser- 
vice a  comparatively  long  one,  from  1808  to  1818,  but  he 
was  at  the  same  time  the  pastor  of  a  church,  and  he  was, 
moreover,  noted  in  an  eminent  degree,  both  as  a  teacher 
and  preacher.  His  fame  as  an  elocutionist  has  survived 
to  the  present  hour.  Scarcely  could  his  hearers  believe 
that  any  one  else 'could  read  the  Scriptures  and  Watts' 
Psalms  and  Hymns  with  such  thrilling  power  and  pathos 
as  he.  One  can  easily  imagine  how  he,  as  a  high-toned 
Calvinist,  would  sound  out  such  lines  as  these : 

"Life,  death  and  hell,  and  worlds  unknown 

Hang  on  his  firm  decree: 
He  sits  on  no  precarious  throne, 

Nor  borrows  leave  to  be." 


lO  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

Some  one  said  of  George  Whitefield  that  he  could  pro- 
nounce the  word''  Mesopotamia"  so  as  to  make  his 
hearers  weep  or  tremble.  Mr.  Chaddock  had  similar 
elocutionary  power,  and  few  are  the  men  who  ever  had 
his  ability  to  stir  the  deep  emotions  of  the  human  heart. 

From  a  letter  recently  received  from  his  daughter, 
Sara  Thatcher  Chaddock,  now  living  in  Portland,  Me., 
from  Chapman's  Sketches  of  the  Alumni  of  Dartmouth 
College,  and  from  other  sources,  I  learn  that  Mr.  Chad- 
dock  (son  of  Capt.  Joseph  Chaddock  who  married  Sara 
Bruce,  and  who  died  and  was  buried  in  Hanover,  1812, 
aged  88,)  was  born  in  Ikookfield,  Mass.,  in  1765,  gradu- 
ated at  Dartmouth  in  1791,  received  the  honorary  de- 
gree of  A.  M.  from  Brown  University  in  1801,  studied 
divinity  with  the  Rev.  Dr.  Nathaniel  Emmons  of  Frank- 
lin, was  ordained  over  the  third  Congregational  church 
in  Rochester,  Mass.,  Oct.  10,  1793,  in  which  place  he 
also  founded  and  taught  an  academy,  was  installed 
pastor  at  Hanover,  July  23,  1806,  was  a  representative 
to  General  Court  in  181 1,  and  was  dismissed  from  his 
pastorate  July  2^,  18 18.  He  was  also  a  representative 
from  Rochester  in  1806. 

Mr.  Chaddock  was  a  man  of  active  and  versatile  pow- 
ers, and,  while  a  resident  in  Hanover,  he  was  not  only  a 
preacher  and  teacher  but,  to  some  extent,  a  business  man. 
In  the  Rev.  Cyrus  W.  Allen's  manuscript  Historic  Re- 
cords, we  read  that  he  "entered  somewhat  into  the  busi- 
ness of  weaving,  taking  materials  in  from  places  twenty 
or  thirty  miles  distant  and  less, and  letting  out  the  work  to 
others  whom  he  employed  to  do  it,  a  business  which,  if 
not  so  successful  and  profitable  as  hoped  for,  showed  at 
least  the  peculiarities  and  capabilities  of  the  man." 

Owing,  perhaps,  to  limited  means  and  a  large  family. 


HISTORY   OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  II 

he  sought  to  better  his  circumstances  by  going  where 
ministers  were  more  needed.  He  first  went  to  Marietta, 
O.,  suffering  much  through  the  exposures  of  a  long  and 
hard  journey,  from  which  he  never  recovered.  After- 
wards he  was  invited  to  Charleston,  W.  Va.,  where. he 
was  settled,  and  where  on  June  8,  1823,  he  died  of  con- 
sumption, and  was  buried  by  the  side  of  two  of  his 
daughters.  As  stated  in  Rev.  Mr.  Barry's  "History  of 
Hanover,"  three  of  his  daughters  w^ere  married  in  that 
place.  Some  time  after  his  death,  the  widow  and  a  son, 
John,  who  was  never  married,  and  who  was  lost  in  a  ves- 
sel sailing  from  San  Francisco  to  Oregon,  and  the 
youngest  daughter,  Sara,  returned  to  New  England. 

While  in  Virginia  he  was,  of  course,  brought  into 
contact  with  slavery.  The  following  incident  relating 
thereto  is  worthy  of  record.  A  slave  who  w^as  spading 
his  garden,  having  souglit  in  vain  permission  of  his  mas- 
ter to  buy  himself,  besought  Mr.  C.  to  intercede  for 
him,  w^hich  he  did  so  effectually  as  to  gain  the  master's 
consent.  Shadrac,  the  slave,  in  about  two  years,  by 
selling  eggs,  working  nights  and  doing  all  sorts  of  labor, 
won  his  freedom,  and  then  went  to  Ohio,  where  he 
bought  an  acre  of  ground,  built  a  little  hut,  and  in  a 
few  years  bought  his  wnfe  and  children,  and,  to  quote 
the  language  of  the  letter,  "the  poor  fellow  said  that  he 
owed  it  all  to  my  father." 

Mrs.  Chaddock,  whose  maiden  name  was  Melatiah 
Nye,  and  who  was  married  to  Mr.  C.  in  1792,  was  the 
daughter  of  Ebenezer  Nye,  of  Oakham,  Mass.  He  was 
captain  of  a  company  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  and 
when  a  neighbor  of  his  was  shot  down  by  his  side  on  a 
retreat,  he  took  the  man  on  his  back,  carrying  him  thus 
till  he  was  obliged  to  lay  him  down,  and  then  took  the 


12  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

buckles  out  of  his  shoes  and  carried  them  home  as  a 
memento  to  the  poor  soldier's  wife.  Mrs.  Chaddock 
retained  her  church  membership  in  Hanover  until  1829, 
when  she  was  dismissed  to  a  church  in  New  Bedford, 
in  which  place  her  son,  Ebenezer  Nye  Chaddock,  was 
living,  and  where  she  herself  died,  and  was  placed  in  a 
tomb  with  a  sister,  Mrs.  Eli  Haskell. 

Mr.  Barrv  gives  the  names  of  eight  of  their  children, 
as  if  this  were  the  full  number.  In  Mr.  L.  Vernon 
Briggs'  "  Church  and  Cemetery  Records  "  it  is  stated, 
probably  on  the  authority  of  Rev.  Samuel  E.  Evans, 
that  there  were  twelve  children  as  the  result  of  their 
marriage.  Miss  Chaddock's  letter  substantiates  the 
smaller  number. 

In  the  town  library  and  in  my  own  possession  is  a 
book  entitled,  "  True  Christianity,  or  the  Whole  Econ- 
omy of  God  Towards  Man,  and  the  Whole  Duty  of  Man 
Towards  God,  by  Rev.  John  Arndt,  translated  into 
English  and  printed  in  London  in  1712.  First  Ameri- 
can edition  revised  and  corrected  by  Rev.  Calvin  Chad- 
dock  of  Hanover,  Mass.,  1809,"  with  a  preface  by  the 
editor. 

Much  that  is  interesting  in  regard  to  Mr.  Chaddock 
both  as  a  teacher  and  preacher,  may  be  found  in  Mr. 
Barry's  *'  History  of  Hanover,"  which  we  need  not  here 
repeat.  I  think  it  well,  however,  to  print  the  following 
letter  which  was  written  the  year  our  present  Academy 
Building  was  dedicated,  by  *'one  of  the  earlier  members 
of  the  Academy." 

New  Castle,  N.   H.,  Feb.  27,  LS52. 
Mr.  M.  Parris  McLauthlin, — 

Dear  Sir  :  It  would  afford  me  much  pleasure  to  attend  the  dedi- 
catory services  at  the  opening  of  jour  new  Academy,  agreeably  to 
your  polite  invitation.     But  as  this  may  not  be,  I  will  endeavor  at 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  1 3 

your  suggestion,  to  sketch  a  few  reminiscences  relative  to  its  early 
history. 

Though  not  of  the  first,  yet  I  was  among  the  earlier  members  of 
the  Academy,  having  entered  it  on  the  9th  of  June,  1<S12,  about 
forty  years  ago. 

The  building,  which  was  owned  by  subscribers  and  proprietors, 
was  located  near  the  centre  of  the  town,  a  little  west  of  the  ancient 
parish  church  [where,  according  to  our  local  historian,  Mr.  John 
Tower,  "  C-  L.  Tower's  house  now  stands"].  It  was  tasteful,  and 
even  quite  elegant,  two  stories  high,  of  fair  proportions,  its  walls 
neatly  painted,  furnished  with  Venetian  blinds,  and  crowned  with 
a  cupola  and  bell.  Within,  at  the  end  opposite  the  entrance,  sat  the 
Preceptor  in  an  elevated  desk,  and  on  his  right  hand,  in  the  ex- 
treme distance,  was  seated  the  Preceptress,  Avith  a  group  of  young 
ladies,  her  pupils,  before  her.  A  respectable  number  of  pupils,  of 
both  sexes,  were  in  attendance  from  towns  both  of  Plymouth  and 
Norfolk  counties. 

Besides  the  common  English  branches,  instruction  was  given  in 
the  Latin  and  Greek  languages,  in  the  higher  mathematics,  navi- 
gation, surveying,  etc.,  and  in  the  female  department  considerable 
attention  was  given  to  embroidery  and  painting  in  water  colors. 

These  exercises  were  diversified  by  weekly  declamations  of  a 
Wednesday  afternoon,  in  the  hall  above,  in  the  presence  of  the 
Preceptor,  Preceptress,  the  pupils  and  visitors,  who  mingled  in 
the  group.  The  young  ladies,  with  those  of  the  other  sex,  took 
part  in  these  exercises. 

At  the  close  of  the  term  there  was  no  public  examination,  but 
frequently  an  exhibition,  as  it  was  called.  On  those  occasions,  be- 
sides the  declamation  of  individuals,  there  was  usually  a  kind  of 
theatrical  performance,  sometimes  the  acting  of  a  drama.  The 
attendance  of  spectators  was  large  and  from  various  towns.* 


*Mrs.  Abby  L.  (Hitchcock)  Tyler  of  Boston  writes  me  that  her 
mother,  while  residing  in  her  youth  at  North  Pembroke,  attended 
Mr.  Chaddock's  school,  and  that  she  and  other  schoolmates  gave 
the  play,  "  She  Stoops  to  Conquer,"  herself  being  the  Mrs.  Hard- 
castle  of  the  occasion. 

From  the  same  authority  I  learn  that  Mr.  Chaddock's  Latin  class 
were  required  to  address  him  in  Latin,  e.  g.,  when  one  wished  to 
leave  he  would  have  to  say,  ^'•Licetne  mihi,  extre,  O  domine?'' 

The  young  lady  pupil  above  referred  to.  Miss  Abigail  L.  Hall, 
in  after  years  became  the  mother  of  one  of  our  Academy  teachers, 
Mr.  Charles  Hitchcock. 


14  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

Of  the  former  members  of  the  Academy,  mj  youthful  associates, 
many  have  been  useful  citizens,  and  several  somewhat  distin- 
guished in  their  professions. 

I  may  thus  mention  Noah  Torrey,  Esq  ,  long  a  highly  respect- 
able magistrate  in  Norfolk  county  ;  Rev.  Reuben  Torrey, a  gradu- 
ate at  Providence  of  the  class  of  1810,  and  for  many  years  a  worthy 
pastor  of  a  church  in  Connecticut;  Dr.  S.  T.  Angier,  a  graduate 
of  the  same  University  of  the  class  of  1818;  also  my  room-mate, 
Rev.  Ira  H.  T.  Blanchard,  a  graduate  at  Cambridge  of  the  class  of 
1817,  for  some  time  a  tutor  in  that  University,  and  afterwards  pas- 
tor of  a  church  in  Harvard. 

"Of  the  honorable  women,  not  a  few,"  I  may  specially  notice 
Mrs.  Almira  Little  Torrey,  whose  amiable  disposition,  high  intel- 
ligence, and  devoted  piety  have  embalmed  her  memory  in  the 
hearts  of  a  numerous  circle  of  friends,  and  who,  by  means  of  her 
interesting  and  published  memoirs,  "being  dead,  yet  speaketh." 

The  venerable  founder  of  Hanover  Academy  will  not  be  forgot- 
ten either  by  those  "  who  sat  at  his  feet"  as  pupils,  or  were  his 
hearers  as  a  preacher  of  the  Gospel. 

His  skill  in  sustaining  the  government  and  discipline  of  the 
school  was  admirable.  To  the  minds  of  the  youth  in  his  charge  he 
imparted  the  ardor  of  his  own  spirt  in  the  pursuit  of  secular  and 
sacred  learning.  With  a  mind  richly  gifted  by  the  Father  of 
Spirits,  he  possessed  a  native,  simple,  and  truly  genuine  eloquence. 
His  bosom,  a  fountain  of  the  tenderest  sympathies  spontaneously 
gushing  forth,  moved  him  often  and  copiously  to  "weep  with  them 
that  weep."  To  the  atflicted — to  the  mourner  in  Zion — his  words  of 
consolation  were  the  breathings  of  angelic  sweetness  :  while  the 
truth  of  God,  heard  from  his  lips  in  tones  of  deepest  solemnity, 
thrilled  the  hearts  of  assembled  multitudes.  "Of  like  passions  with 
others" — by  no  means  faultless — yea,  even  specially  "compassed 
with  infirmity,"  yet  in  conflict  with  his  spiritual  foes  "  he  was  more 
than  conqueror." 

The  peaceful  close  of  his  useful  life  was  passed  on  the  sunny  plains 
of  West  Virginia.  While  passing  up  the  beautiful  Ohio,  of  a  pleas- 
ant summer's  morning,  many  years  since,  I  was  providentially 
thrown  in  company  with  some  of  those  who  enjoyed  his  last  min- 
istrations ;  and  thus  from  the  lips  of  his  personal  friends  I  received 
the  animating  account  of  his  final  exit  from    earth,  in  the  triumph 

of  Christian  faith. 

Most  respectfully, 

Lucius  Alden. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  1 5 

Mr.  Alden,  one  of  the  many  boys  fitted  for  college 
under  Mr.  Chaddock's  tuition,  was  born  in  East  Bridge- 
water,  June  1 8th,  1796,  graduated  at  Brown  University 
1 82 1,  and  at  Andover  Theological  Seminary  in  1825; 
Home  Missionary,  Dearborn  Co.,  Ind.,  1825-30;  pastor, 
East  Abington,  1830-43,  East  Bridgewater,  1843-44, 
Lancaster,  1845,  Newcastle,  N.  H.,  1845-73  ;  died  at 
Brockton,  April  24,   1884. 

Mr.  Reuben  Torrey,  mentioned  in*  the  letter,  was  born 
in  Weymouth,  April  3,  1789,  was  pastor  in  Eastford,  Ct., 
in  1820-41,  and  subsequently  in  other  towns  of  the  same 
State.  He  died  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  Sept.  22,  1870. 
Samuel  Tubbs  Angier,  M.  D.,  was  from  Pembroke.  Rev. 
Mr-  Blanchard  in  1842  preached  for  several  months  in 
East  Bridgewater,  but  failing  health  forbade  him  to 
settle  there.  He  died  in  1845  in  South  Weymouth,  his 
native  town. 

Almira  Little,  who  married  Rev.  Joseph  Torrey,  of 
South  Hanson,  was  one  of  a  distinguished  family  of 
sisters,  of  whom  some  account  is  given  in  the  Centen- 
nial History  (1888)  of  the  first  Baptist  church  of  Marsh- 
field.  I  have  seen  and  read  her  interesting  Memoir. 
One  of  her  sisters  married  Col.  John  Collamore,  Esq., 
well  known  in  this  vicinity  years  ago,  as  county  com- 
missioner, and  a  deacon  of  the  Baptist  church  in 
Hanover. 

Another  of  Mr.  Chaddock's  pupils,  Miss  P^liza  Hall, 
sister  of  Abigail  above  named,  taught  school  for  a  long 
time.  She  was  assistant  for  many  years  to  a  blind 
person,  a  Miss  Baker,  in  a  private  school  in  New  Bed- 
ford. One  winter  she  studied  Latin  in  the  district 
school  of  North  Pembroke,  having  a  Mr.  Deane,  a  Har- 
vard student,  as  a  teacher.     She  died  at  the  age  of  85, 


l6  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

and  during  the  last  four  years  of  her  life  she  read  Cicero 
and  Virgil  and  many  works  in  French. 

What  would  we  not  give  for  a  Historical  Catalogue 
of  all  the  pupils  taught  by  Mr.  Chaddock  in  Hanover  ? 
But,  alas,  we  have  not  even  a  list  of  their  names. 

Probably  it  is  not  now  generally  known  that  Mr. 
Chaddock  was  at  one  time  engaged  in  a  very  unpleas- 
ant law  suit.  The  case  of  *'  Chaddock  versus  Briggs," 
was  tried  at  Taunton  in  the  July  term  of  1816,  before 
the  Supreme  Judicial  Court.  It  seems  that  Mr.  Alden 
Briggs,  Jr.,  of  Pembroke,  had  more  than  once  asserted 
in  public  that  Mr.  Chaddock  (we  omit  the  scurrilous 
terms  employed)  had  been  on  a  drunken  frolic,  that  on 
one  occasion  while  working  in  the  meadow  he  was  so 
drunk  that  he  could  not  get  home.  Mr.  C.  sued  him 
for  slander,  placing  the  damage  at  $2000,  and  procured 
Aaron  Hobart,  Esq.,  for  his  lawyer.  In  the  complaint 
the  plaintiff  avers  that  he  w^as  always  of  good  reputa- 
tion and  character  for  temperance  and  sobriety,  and  is 
and  ever  has  been  free  from  the  odious  and  criminal 
offence  of  drunkenness,  that  he  was  in  danger  of  being 
deprived  of  his  ministerial  office  and  losing  the  profits 
accruing  to  him  from  the  same,  and  likewise  that  he 
has  undergone  great  distress  in  body  and  mind,  and  has 
been  greatlv  injured  and  prejudiced  in  his  good  name 
and  in  his  religious  character  and  usefulness.  A  ver- 
dict favorable  to  the  plaintiff  was  rendered  by  the  jury. 
Mr.  Briggs'  counsel,  Benjamin  Whitman,  Esq.,  moved 
an  arrest  of  judgment.  He  contended  that  the  words 
spoken  were  not  actionable,/^?-  se,  especially  when 
spoken  of  a  Congregational  minister,  who  cannot  be 
said  to  have  any  tenure  of  office.  Besides,  the  words 
did  not  indicate  a  habit  but  only  a  single  act  of   frailty 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  1/ 

not  inconsistent  with  the  general  character,  and  vir- 
tuous habits  of  a  minister.  Judge  Isaac  Parker  main- 
tained on  the  contrary  that  the  office  of  a  minister  re- 
quired a  pure  moral  character,  that  even  when  not  in 
the  discharge  of  his  ministerial  functions  he  is  to  be 
under  the  control  and  obligations  of  the  religion  he  pro- 
fesses to  teach,  and  that  a  charge  of  this  kind  would 
certainly  expose  a  minister  to  dismission  from  his  peo- 
ple. He  says  that  "by  the  verdict  of  the  jury  it  is  es- 
tablished that  the  defendant  spoke  the  words  alleged  in 
reference  to  the  plaintiff,  and  that  they  were  falsely  and 
maliciously  spoken,  and  it  is  understood  that  an  attempt 
which  was  made  at  the  trial  to  justify  the  publishing 
by  proving  the  truth  of  the  words  wholly  failed."  He 
further  says  that  "  the  verdict  in  this  case  has  estab- 
lished the  malice  ;  and,  indeed,  from  the  opprobrious 
terms  used  in  promulgating  the  fact,  as  well  as  the  repe- 
tition of  It  in  a  form  of  words  equally  offensive,  there  was 
no  room  to  suppose  the  defendant  innocent  of  an  evil 
intent  in  speaking  them.  Upon  these  grounds  we  are 
satisfied  that  the  delaration  is  sufficient,  and  the  motion 
in  arrest  of  judgment  must  be  overruled."  Thankful 
may  we  be  for  such  a  triumphant  defence  of  the  accused! 
Yet  it  is  perhaps  but  fair  to  say  that  some  even  now  be- 
lieve, on  what  they  regard  as  adequate  testimony,  that 
there  was  some  truth  in  the  above  charge.  For  a  re- 
port of  this  trial,  see  13  Mass.  p.  248  of  the  Social  Law 
Library  in  the  Court  House,  Boston. 

I  have  met  with  some  aged  persons  who  were  enthu- 
siastic in  their  admiration  for  Mr.  Chaddock  as  a 
preacher.  Surely  as  a  teacher,  also,  he  deserves  the 
high  admiration  and  regard  of  all  our  people. 

''The  town,"  says  Mr.  Barry,  "has  reason  to  remem- 


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HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY 


ber  him  with  gratitude  for  his  patient  and  earnest  efforts 
for  the  improvement  of  the  young."  EspeciaHymay  we 
be  thankful  that  as  a  pioneer  he  started  an  influence  in 
favor  of  higher  education  which  has  spread  far  and 
wide,  and  which  has  already  lasted  nearly  a  hundred 
years.  Had  it  not  been  for  him,  Hanover  might  have 
had  a  far  different  educational  histor3\ 

I  am  sorry  to  learn  that  no  likeness  of  Mr.  Chaddock 
is  now  in  existence — "the  large-sized  painting"  spoken 

of  in  Mr.  Barry's  his- 
tory having  gone  to  ut- 
ter decay  and  ruin.  He 
is  described  as  being 
rather  short  and  thick- 
set, but  as  having  a  very 
fine  figure.  The  best 
thing  I  can  do  to  repre- 
sent, perchance,  some- 
thing of  his  looks  is  to 
insert  here  his  youngest 
daughter's  picture,  tak- 
en, as  she  says,  when 
"in  my  prime."  She 
writes  that  she  was 
christened  SallyThatch- 
Miss  CHADDOCK.  '        cr  Chaddock,  but,  as  shc 

thinks  Sara  the  prettier  name,  she  is  now  so  called  by 
her  friends.  She  says  that  she  has  no  talent  for  writ- 
ing (.''),  and  that  all  the  talent  she  basis  dramatic,  which 
she  inherited  from  her  father.  Her  friends  speak  of  her 
as  being  an  excellent  reader. 

I  sometimes  fancy  that  the  existence  and  influence  of 
Hanover  Academy,  as  conducted  by  Mr.  Chaddock  and 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  I9 

his  successors,  bad  something  to  do  with  the  holding  of 
an  all-day  educational  meeting,  September,  1838,  in  the 
Episcopal  Church  at  our  ''Four  Corners,"  which  was  at- 
tended by  no  less  dignitaries  than  Daniel  Webster  and 
John  Ouincy  Adams,  and  also  the  Hon.  Horace  Mann, 
if  I  mistake  not.  Mr.  Webster,  who  was  on  that  occasion 
evidently  suffering  from  asthma  or  hay  fever,  did  not 
show  much  animation  in  his  speaking,  especially  as  con- 
trasted with  Mr.  Adams,  who,  in  mind  and  body  was  all 
activity.  The  following  extract  from  Mr.  Adams'  speech^ 
which  we  take  from  a  manuscript  copy,  may  be  of  some 
interest  to  our  readers  : 

'*  There  was  one  usage  in  the  ancient  republic  of 
Sparta  which  now  occurred  to  him  and  which  filled  his 
mind  with  this  pleasing  idea,  namely,  that  these  en- 
deavors of  ours  for  the  fit  education  of  all  our  children, 
would  be  the  means  of  raising  up  a  generation  around 
us  which  would  be  superior  to  ourselves.  The  usage 
was  this  :  The  inhabitants  of  the  city  on  a  certain  day 
collected  together  and  marched  in  procession,  dividing 
themselves  into  three  companies,  the  old,  the  middle- 
aged,  and  the  young.  When  assembled  for  the  sports 
and  exercises,  a  dramatic  scene  was  introduced,  and  the 
three  parties  each  had  a  speaker,  and  Plutarch  gives  the 
form  of  phraseology  used  in  the  several  addresses  on 
the  occasion.  The  old  men  speak  first,  and  addressing 
those  beneath  them  in  age,  say  : 

'  We  have  been  in  days  of  old, 
Wise,  generous,  brave  and  bold.' 

Then  come  the  middle-aged,  and  casting  a  triumphant 
look  at  their  seniors,  say  to  them  : 

'That  which  in  days  of  yore  ye  were, 
We  at  the  present  moment  are.' 


20  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

Lastly  march  forth  the  children,  and  looking  bravely 
on  both  companies  who  had  spoken,  they  shout  forth 
thus  : 

'  Hereafter,  at  our  country's  call. 
We  promise  to  excel  30U  all.'  " 

In  connection  with  a  reference  to  the  influence  of  Mr. 
Chaddock,  it  should  be  stated  that  his  descendants  have 
ever  manifested  a  deep  interest  in  the  welfare  of  the 
Academy.  His  daughter,  Roxana,  wife  of  Hon.  Albert 
Smith,  was  a  generous  donor  to  its  funds  ;  and  his 
granddaughter,  ]\Trs.  Annie  L.  (Smith)  Bigelow,  late  de- 
ceased, often  remembered  the  needs  of  the  students. 
Indeed,  nearly  all  the  scholarships  which  have  been 
granted  to  the  students  have  come  as  gifts  either  from 
Mrs.  Bigelow  or  from  Mrs.  Eliza  Salmond. 

After  Mr.  Chaddock's  departure  the  school  rapidly  de- 
clined. It  is  thought  that  Rev.  Mr.  Chapin,  the  suc- 
cessor of  Mr.  Chaddock,  taught  there  for  a  brief  period, 
and  that  it  was  used  at  times  for  a  Sunday  school  ;  and 
thus  it  was  suffered  to  remain  until  about  the  year  1822, 
when  it  was  sold  and  moved  to  the  Four  Corners.  In 
early  times  it  was  utilized  by  Mr.  Ephraim  Stetson  for 
the  storage  and  sale  of  strong  waters,*  and  on  these 
' 'Stetson  Shoals,"  as  the  place  was  called,  many  a  poor 
ship  carpenter  met  with  serious  if  not  fatal  shipwreck. 
It  was  subsequently  lengthened  out  on  its  eastern  end, 
(the  cut  below  shows  about  the  whole  length  of  the  origi- 
nal building.  The  piazza  is,  of  course,  a  modern  addi- 
tion,) and  in  later  years  was  occupied  as  a  store  and 
shoe  manufactory  by  Mr.  Stephen  Josselyn,  but  is  now 
used  as  a  drug  store  by  Mr.  William  Snow  Curtis.     The 


*It  is  reported  for  a  truth  that  these  waters  were,  at  least  in  very 
cold  weather,  so  weak  that  thev  were  unable  to  run. 


niSTORV    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY 


21 


bell,  with  its  shar[),  ringing  sound,  was  probably  trans- 
ferred to  the  new  Academy  building,  of  which  we  shall 
next  speak. 


THE    FIRST   ACADEMY    BUILDING. 


PART   11. 
HANOVER   ACADEMY,    1828-^1 

Its  Second  Buildinor  and  its  Teachers. 


This  second  building  was  erected  in  1828,  ten  years 
after  Mr.  Chaddock's  leaving  Hanover,  and  it  stood  on 
the  east  side  of  Broadway  Street,  about  midway  between 
the  dwelling  of  J.  Williams  Beal  and  the  Odd  Fellows' 
Hall,  nearly  at  the  foot  of  the  present  Academy  Avenue. 
It  consisted  of  two  stories,  and  in  outward  appearance 
it  resembled,  as  I  should  suppose,  the  old  one,  save  that 
it  was  somewhat  larger. 

It  would  be  interesting  to  know  who  started  this  en- 
terprise, and  what  were  the  inducements  for  so  doing. 
It  is  thought  by  some  that  Rev.  Mr.  Wolcott,  who  per- 
haps at  that  time  was  teaching  a  private  school  near  b\', 
greatly  favored  and  helped  on  the  movement,  and  that 
possibly  his  feelings  were  somewdiat  hurt  that  he  was 
not  earlier  invited  to  become  its  teacher.  In  a  letter 
dated  Nov,  3d,  1858,  written  by  Charles  A.  Reed,  the  then 
Preceptor  of  the  Academy,  to  Mr.  Wolcott,  inviting  him 
to  a  reunion  of  the  Alumni  on  Nov.  26th,  he  says  :  ''  Be 
assured  that  we  would  be  exceedingly  gratified  to  meet 
you  at  this  reunion,  and  would  welcome  you  to  the  hos- 
pitalities of  Hanover,  as  one  of  the  founders  of  our  in- 
stitution." All  the  shareholders  of  this  property,  thirty- 
nine  in  number,  and  embracing  some  of  the  most  sub- 
stantial men  of  the  time,  have  passed  away,  and  in  these 
.matters  of  inquiry  we  are  left  to  our  own  conjectures. 


HISTORY   OF    HANOVER    ACADP:MV.  23 

These  proprietors  belonged  principally  to  the  three  towns 
of  Hanover,  Scituate  and  Pembroke,  and  since  the 
'*  Four  Corners  "  serves  as  a  central  position  for  these 
towns,  the  building,  doubtless  for  this  reason  mainly, 
was  located  here.  It  was  built,  according  to  Mr.  Barry's 
History,  in  shares  of  ^25  each,  at  an  expense  of  about 
^1,200;  the  Trustees  were  incorporated  in  1829;  and 
the  names  of  the  original  proprietors  were  Alexander 
Wood,  Esq.,  Capt.  Haviland  Torrey,  Joseph  Eells, 
Ephraim  Stetson,  Dr.  Ezekiel  Gushing,  Rev.  Calvin 
Wolcott,  Sarah  Gardner  (Wolcott  ?),  Robert  Eells, 
Asaph  Magoun,  Horace  Collamore,  Esq.,  Gen.  A.  VV. 
Oldham,  Capt.  Tilden  Crooker,  Benjamin  C.  Pratt, 
Ethan  A.  Stetson,  Capt.  William  Josselyn,  Eli  Stetson, 
Joseph  S.  Bates,  Horatio  Gushing,  Esq.,  Isaac  Magoun, 
Col.  John  B.  Barstow,  Capt.  Thomas  Waterman,  Capt. 
Nathaniel  Barstow,  John  C.  Stockbridge,  George  Bailey, 
Dr.  Joseph  Studley,  Justus  Whiting,  Thomas  Damon, 
Benjamin  Mann,  Esq.,  Lemuel  Dwelley,  (Col.)  Samuel 
Tolman,  Jr.,  Elias  W.  Pratt,  Luther  Ilowland  (of  Han- 
son), James  Waterman,  Samuel  Waterman,  Samuel 
Stetson,  Elias  Magoun,  John  Barstow,  P2sq.,  Albert 
Clapp,  and  John  Wilder. 

Perhaps  if  the  former  building  had  been  for  sale  at 
this  time,  it  might  have  been  purchased  for  the  new 
school.  This  new  building  was  used  continuously  for  a 
school  som.e  twenty-three  years.  The  shareholders  were 
incorporated  February  i8th,  1828,  and  Alexander  Wood, 
Horatio  Gushing,  John  B.  Barstow,  Col.  Samuel  Tolman, 
Jr.,  and  Horace  Collamore,  were    chosen   as  a  Board  of 

Trustees. 

ITS  TEACHERS. 

We  are  sorry  that  we  cannot  now  tell  more  about  its 


24  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY, 

earlier  teachers.     Several  of   them,  as    it    would    seem, 
taught  but  for  a  short  time.* 

The  first  teacher,  Zephaniah  Ames  Bates  (1828), 
(not  Bass,  as  in  Barry's  History),  was  the  son  of  Joshua 
and  Bethiah  (Ames)  Bates,  and  was  born  in  Hanover, 
1803,  graduated  from  Harvard  College,  1824,  and  after 
leaving  here  went  South  as  a  teacher,  and  died  there  in 
1842.  He  was  never  married.  Near  relatives  of  his 
are  still  living  in  Bridgewater,  with  one  of  whom,  Sarah 
T.  Bates,  a  niece,  I  have  had  some  correspondence. 

Mr.  Horace  Hall  Rolfe  (1829),  son  of  Rev.  Wil- 
liam and  Judith  (Hazletine)  Rolfe,  was  born  at  Groton, 
July  24,  1800,  graduated  at  Dartmouth  College,  1824, 
and  died  in  Charleston,  S.  C,  February  24,  183 1.  In 
March,  1828,  he  married  Mary  Marcy,  of  Plymouth 
(where  he  had  taught  for  a  time),  and  while  in  Hanover 
they  lived  in  the  Seth  Barker  (Horatio  Bigelow)  house, 
near  North  River  Bridge — the  same  house  in  which  Mrs. 
Wade  subsequently  kept  a  private  school. f 

*Tlie  order  of  teachers  and  dates  of  their  teacliing,  as  given  in 
Rev.  Mr.  B.irrj's  History  of  Hanover,  are  approximately  correct. 
I  was  in  hopes  to  get  some  material  for  our  Academy  History  from 
the  collection  of  documents  made  by  Mr.  Barry,  but  I  learn  that 
there  is  nothing  left  which  would  be  serviceable.  I  may  state  as  a 
matter  of  interest  to  manj',  that  one  of  his  daughters,  Caroline  L. 
Barry,  now  Mrs.  C.  L.  Morton  (widow),  of  Longwood,  Florida, 
was  for  a  short  time  an  Academy  student.  Another  daughter,  Eliza 
B.  Barry,  is  living  wifh  her  mother,  Mrs.  I>ouisa  Barry,  in  New- 
tonville.     I  think  there  are  also  other  daughters. 

fMrs.  Charlotte  S.  (Brown)  Wade,  was  the  young  widowed  con- 
sort of  Dr.  Henry  Wade,  who  practised  in  Hanover  in  1829,  and 
died  in  1830.  Her  school  bore  the  somewhat  ambitious  title  of 
"  Plymouth  County  Seminary,"  but,  from  what  I  have  heard,  she 
was  well  deserving  to  be  at  the  head  of  such  an  institution.  As 
she  had  the  happy    faculty  of  adapting  herself  to  all  ages,  she  was 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  25 

Passing  by  the  name  of  Rev.  Cyrus  Holmes  (1830) 
of  whom  we  shall  speak  later  on,  we  come  next  to  Mr. 
Ethan  Allen  (1830).  I  have  in  my  possession  a 
receipt  from  him,  dated  April  19th,  1830,  for  tuition  of 
my  eldest  brother  :  ''  Six  weeks,  $1.50  ;  for  bell-ringing, 
wood,  etc.,  ^o.io;  total  $1.60.  Received  payment." 
Mr.  Allen  was  born  in  Londonderry,  V't.,  Nov.  25,  1794, 
was  graduated  at  Brown  University  in  1823,  and  after 
teaching  in  Millwood,  Va.,  in  Hanover,  and  in  Roches- 
ter, N.  Y.,  was  ordained  an  Episcopal  minister,  and  after- 
wards served  as  pastor  in  Otis,  1836 — 46,  in  Nantucket 
1846 — 55,  and  in  Guilford,  Vt.,  where  he  died  May 
19,  1867. 

The  Rev.  Calvin  Wolcott  (1831),  appears  next  as 
the  teacher  for  one  year.  He  was  for  a  longtime  a  resi- 
dent of  this    place,  serving  as  rector  of  St.    Andrew's 

greatly  beloved  by  aU  her  scholars.  Her  system  of  teaching  was 
peculiarly  unique,  original,  and  interesting,  and  it  was  a  pleasure 
to  be  under  her  instruction.  (Substance  of  a  letter  received  from 
Mrs.  Adeline  Briggs.)  Another  of  her  pupils,  mentioned  below, 
says  that  "  Mrs.  Wade  was  a  woman  of  high  cultivation,  belonging 
to  one  of  the  first  families  of  Hingham.  a  lady  of  great  executive 
ability,  and  one  who,  wherever  she  was  placed,  attracted  the  at- 
tention of  all  who  saw  her,  yet  seemingly  unconscious  of  it  herself." 
She  was  subsequently  invited  by  the  Society  of  Friends  to  open 
a  school  in  New  Bedford,  which  she  conducted  until  her  marriage 
to  a  Friend,  Isaac  Taber  of  that  place.  She  would  have  served  well 
as  Preceptress  of  the  Academy  had  such  an  arrangement  been  then 
in  fashion.  During  her  term  of  teaching  (1830 — 4)  the  Academy  was 
obliged  to  have  several  difterent  male  teachers.  Fora  part  of  the  time 
her  school  was  quite  large,  and  she  had  one  of  her  graduate  pupils, 
Miss  Judith  S.  Cook,  now  living  in  Boston,  for  an  assistant,  to 
Avhom  Mrs.  Wade  left  the  charge  of  the  school,  and  who  finally 
went  to  New  Bedford  to  be  her  assistant  there.  Certainly  this 
school  should  not  be  overlooked  in  summing  up  the  educational  in- 
fluences-which  have  left  their  stamp  on  the  minds  of  this  com- 
munity. 


26  HTSTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

Church,  from  1818  to  1834.  I  have  fortunately  obtained 
many  facts  concerning  his  history  from  his  grand- 
daughter, Mrs.  Annie  Richards  Prime,  of  Yonkers, 
N.  Y.,  the  daughter  of  Dr.  Jacob  and  Hhzabeth  G.(Wol- 
cott)  Richards,  of  Braintree.  His  remote  ancestor  in 
this  country  was  William  Wolcott  (or  Walcott),  of  Sa- 
lem, 1636.  His  grandfather  was  Jonathan  Wolcott, 
who  was  born  in  Danvers  and  died  in  Windham,  Ct., 
May  25,  1745.  His  father,  Elijah  Wolcott,  lived  and 
died  in  Williamsburg,  Mass.  Mr.  Wolcott  was  born  in 
Williamsburg,  April  27,  1787,  and  died  in  New  York 
City,  January  21,  1861.  In  181 1  he  was  married  to 
Sarah  Gardner,  of  Danvers,  who,  according  to  Mr.  Barry, 
was  a  collateral  descendant  of  Gen.  Putnam.  He  en- 
tered Phillips  Andover  Academy,  Aug.  12,  1809,  left 
the  school  in  181 1,  subsequently  studied  theology  under 
the  direction  of  Bishop  Griswold,  and  then  made  his 
first  settlement  in  Hanover.  After  leaving  here  he 
officiated  in  the  churches  in  Otis  and  Blandford,  in  the 
western  part  of  the  State,  became  rector  of  Christ's 
Church  in  Ouincy,  and  in  Hopkinton,  Vt.,  resigning  the 
latter  church  about  1844.*  Then  for  some  years  he 
served  as  general  agent  of  the  American  Bible  society 
in  Massachusetts  and  Western  Virginia.  In  1850  he 
received  a  call  from  his  old  friend,  Rev.  Dr.  Stephen 
H.  Tyng,  of  St.  George's  Church,  New  York,  to  become 
assistant  minister,  which  office  he  resigned  about  1859, 
on  account  of  ill-health,  but  continued  to  live  in  the  city 
till  his  death.  His  remains  were  taken  to  Ouincy  and 
placed  in  the  Richards'  family  vault,  in  the  old  ceme- 
tery.    A  long   time  resident    in  Hanover    when  in  the 

*See   History  of  St.    Andrew's    Church  by  Rev.   Samuel  Culler, 
1848. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  2/ 

priaie  of  life,  he  is  even  now  well  remembered  in  this 
place,  and  is  highly  esteemed  by  many  who  were  his 
hearers  or  his  pupils.  Of  Mr.  Wolcott's  sons,  two, 
Samuel  G.  and  Asa  G.,  became  distinguished  physicians, 
and  one,  George  T.,  taught  for  a  brief  space  in  our 
Academy. 

For  a  winter  or  more  Mr.  Wolcott  taught  school  on 
''Church  Plain,"  in  Scituate  (afterward  South  Scituate, 
and  now  Norwell),  and  he  also  had  a  private  school  in 
the  attic  of  his  own  house,  corner  of  Broadway  and 
Oakland  Avenue.  He  was,  as  I  should  judge,  a  very 
nervous  man,  and  was  at  times  very  severe  in  his  pun- 
ishments, the  which,  if  attempted  now  in  our  schools, 
would  not  be  long  endured.  Facing  the  cold  north-west 
wind  in  winter  as  he  walked  over  "  Church  Hill  "  in  the 
morning,  was,  no  doubt,  trying  to  his  feelings,  and  for 
this  reason,  or  some  other,  he  would  occasionally  omit 
morning  prayer,  and  when  this  happened  we  knew  what 
to  expect.  Woe  to  that  scholar  whose  eye  he,  while 
engaged  as  the  first  thing  in  ruling  the  writing  books, 
would  detect  looking  off  from  his  book.  And  yet  he 
was  generally  so  pleasant  and  "clever"  in  the  school- 
room, and  withal  so  good  a  teacher,  that  his  scholars, 
almost  without  exception,  liked  him  and  loved  him.  In 
the  attic  library  of  my  present  residence,  I  presume 
there  may  be  found  two  or  three  small  New  Testaments 
of  a  faded  red  binding,  which  are  inscribed  with  his 
name,  and  which  he  gave  to  us  boys  as  a  reward  "for 
diligence  and  good  behavior."  While  we  can  justly  say 
that  he  was  successful  as  a  teacher,  it  can  also  be  truly 
said  that  his  church  enjoyed  a  good  degree  of  prosperity 
under  his  long  pastorate. 

John  P.  Washburn  (1832),  was  born  in   Ware,  April 


28  HISTORY    OP^    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

8,  1809,  and  died  in  Barnstable,  April  14,  ,1886.  After 
leaving  Hanover  he  taught  for  a  while  at  Scituate  Har- 
bor. While  teaching  in  these  places  he  was,  according 
to  report,  pursuing  the  study  of  medicine.  He  subse- 
quently taught  in  l^ridgewater,  Sandwich,  and  several 
other  towns,  especially  on  the  Cape.  In  Sandwich,  in 
1835,  he  married  for  his  first  wife  Patience  W.  Crocker, 
who  died  September  14,  1875,  aged  nearly  69  years. 
They  had  four  children,  two  of  whom  died  in  infancy, 
and  two  daughters  are  now  living.  In  May  4,  1879,  ^^^ 
married  Martha  N.  Hinckley,  of  Barnstable,  who  still 
survives.  In  his  later  years  he  was  engaged  in  the  in- 
surance business  in  Barnstable. 

Dr.  Ira  Warren  (1833),  was  born  in  Canada,  1805, 
studied  for  a  time  in  Brown  University,  taught  school 
at  Queen  An  tie's  Corner,  in  Hingham,  became  precep- 
tor for  about  a  year  in  Hanover  Academy,  married  in 
1834  a  village  maiden.  Miss  Ruth  Stockbridge  Turner, 
subsequently  taught  in  the  Academy  at  Edgartown,  and 
then  went  to  Boston,  where  he  studied  medicine,  and 
where  he  practised  as  a  physician  till  his  death  in  1864. 
His  remains  are  interred  in  our  Hanover  cemetery. 
While  in  Boston  he  edited  for  a  time  ''The  Christian 
Witness"  (Episcopalian),  and  wrote  two  books,  ''Pusey- 
ism,  its  Causes  and  Cure,"  and  "The  Household  Physi- 
cian," a  large  volume  which  has  had  an  immense  sale. 
I  may  say  that  Mr.  Warren  in  his  early  manhood  resided 
for  some  years  at  Hanover  Corners,  where  I  first  be- 
came acquainted  with  him.  He  then  seemed  to  me  to 
be  rather  a  man  of  thought  than  of  action.  His  subse- 
quent life  and  writings  prove  that  on  the  first  point  at 
least  I  was  not  mistaken.  One  of  our  Alumni,  a  man 
of  discernment  and  sound  judgment,  who  resided  for  a 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 


29 


time  in  his  family  (George  F.  Stetson,  of  Hanson),  in  a 
letter  to  me,  characterizes  him  as  "  a  clear  and  careful 
thinker,  a  cultured,  independent,  and  able  writer,  an  in- 
structive conversationalist,  and  altogether  a  refined, 
sympathetic  and  charming  friend  and  gentleman."  I 
am  sorry  that  I  cannot  obtain  his  portrait  for  this  work, 
but  it  can  be  found  in  the  medical  treatise  above 
mentioned. 


THOMAS   FULLER    WHITE- 

Thomas  Fuller  White  (1834 — 37)  son  of  Abiel 
and  Joanna  (Fuller)  White,  was  born  in  Halifax,  July 
29,  1 8 10,  died  in  Cumberland,  Md.,  December  26,  1864. 
He  was  of  Pilgrim  descent,  his  maternal  ancestor  being 
Deacon  and  Doctor  Samuel  P\iller,  who  came  over  in 
the  Mayflower.  Educated  at  Northampton,  he  early 
betrayed  an  aptitude  and  fondness  for  teaching,  and  be- 
gan this  calling  in  several  towns  of  Plymouth  County, 
one  of  his  schools  being  in   North  Pembroke.     His  sue- 


30  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

cess  in  teaching  led  to  his  becoming  principal  of  Hano- 
ver Academy  in  1834.  He  appears  to  have  been  emi- 
nently skilful  both  in  governing  easily  and  in  success- 
ful teaching,  qualities  as  diverse  in  their  nature  as  are 
the  wisdom  of  the  serpent  and  the  harmlessncss  of  the 
dove.  His  system  of  instruction,  it  is  thought,  would 
not  suffer  in  comparison  with  any  of  the  modern 
methods  of  education.  His  quarterly  examinations  and 
exhibitions  seem  to  have  been  red-letter  occasions  for 
the  Academy.  He  is  described  as  being  a  gentleman 
of  fine  personal  appearance,  of  cultivated  and  graceful 
manners,  and,  indeed,  as  a  person  who  apparently  had 
no  mean  opinion  of  himself.  Being  also  an  accomplished 
reader  and  a  fluent  speaker,  he  was  naturally  often 
called  upon  to  make  addresses  on  public  occasions. 
While  teaching  in  Duxbury  in  1832  he  was  appointed 
by  Gov.  Levi  Lincoln  as  adjutant  of  ist  Regiment  In- 
fantry, 1st  Brigade,  5th  Division  of  the  Massachusetts 
Militia,  and  was  honorably  discharged  therefrom  Jan- 
uary, 1837.  Resigning  the  Principalship  of  the  Acade- 
my this  same  year,  he  accepted  a  professorship  of  Latin 
and  Greek,  at  Charlotte  Hall,  Calvert  County,  Md.,  but 
removed  the  following  year  to  Cumberland  of  the  same 
State,  to  become  the  principal  of  the  Alleghany  County 
Academy.  For  the  improvement  of  his  health  he  after- 
wards engaged  in  civil  engineering,  and  pursued  that 
calling  until  his  decease.  In  Cumberland  he  served 
one  term  as  Mayor,  but  declined  re-election.  In  1861 
he  was  appointed  surveyor  of  Alleghany  County. 
Though  engrossed  with  business  he  was  an  earnest 
worker  in  the  Temperance  and  other  good  causes,  and 
was  a  devoted  and  efficient  member  of  the  Episcopal 
Church. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  3 1 

In  November,  1841,  he  married  Mrs.  Mary  Thistle 
Hilary,  and  has  had  a  large  family  of  daughters,  several 
of  whom  died  in  infancy.  Two  became  popular  and 
successful  teachers,  and  two  are  residing  in  Cumberland 
with  their  aged  mother.  I  should  have  stated  that  Mr. 
White,  though  living  in  a  slave  State  in  war  times,  was 
unswerving  in  his  devotion  and  loyalty  to  the  Union.* 

Herman  Bourn(  1836-37)  son  of  Andrew  and  Lucin- 
da  (Barrows)  Bourn,  was  born  in  Attleboro,  Jan.  9, 
1800,  and  was  graduated  from  Brown  University,  class 
of  1825.  The  college  catalogue  latinizes  his  given  name 
to  Hermannus,  and  simply  states  that  he  was  from  Attle- 
boro. Mr.  Bourn  is  described  as  being  a  very  sedate, 
quiet,  dignified  person,  talented  and  scholarly.  He  was 
the  author  of  a  work  on  Botany  which,  for  those  days, 
was  nicely  gotten  up  and  handsomely  illustrated. 

A  few  years  since  I  was  informed  by  a  keeper  of  min- 
erals and  curios,  in  l^oston,  that  he  had  in  his  possess- 
ion a  pen-written  list  of  students  in  the  male  depart- 
ment of  Hanover  Academy,  for  the  Second  or  Fall  term, 
commencing  Monday,  August  7,  and  ending  Saturday, 
October  28,  1837.  Recentl}^  I  visited  the  city  store 
and  purchased  this  interesting  document — the  first  list 
of  Academy  boys  which  I  have  ever  seen.  This  list, 
remarkable  for  its  chirography,  was  evidently  written 
by  the  teacher,  Mr.  Bourn,  and  is  substantially  correct, 
though  some  few  names  as  here  recorded  literatim^  are 
not  fully  and  accurately  written  : 

Stephen  N.  Gifford,  George  Studley,   Luther  Briggs, 

*For  many  of  the  facts  in  Mr.  White's  history  I  am  indebted  to 
his  niece,  Miss  H.  E.  Bruce,  and  to  Mr.  and  Mrs  Luther  Briggs, 
all  of  Neponset. 


32  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

Francis  Collamore,  Augustus  Collamore,  Theodore  Col- 
lamore,  Robert  Barstow,  Joseph  B.  Barstow,  Joseph 
Dvvelley,  Henry  Bates,  William  Josselyne,  James  Tol- 
man,  Tobias  O.  Gardner,  John  A.  Smith,  James  R. 
Smith,  Joseph  B.  Sylvester,  Belcher  Magoon,  Luther 
Studley,  John  D.  Twiggs,  George  W.  Eels,  Andrew  I. 
Sprague,  Sarah  E.  Barstozv,  Priscilla  B.  SinitJi^  Austin 
Dyer,  Robert  Dwelly,  Jonathan  Oldham,  Thomas  H. 
Soule,  Henry  C.  Wainwright,  John  E.  Barstow,  Horace 
Stetson,  Eleazer  Josslyne,  Asa  C.  Hammond,  Charles 
I.  Hilburn,  Robert  Salmon,  Alden  Briggs  3d,  Benjamin 
Elliot. 

Miss  Hannah  \V.  Johnson  (1837),  wasfor  two  terms 
a  contemporary  teacher  with  Mr.  Bourn  at  the  Acad- 
emy. In  her  second  term,  ending  in  September,  she 
had  25  young  lady  students.  Among  the  scholars  of 
Miss  Johnson,  as  also  of  Miss  Fuller  at  a  later  period, 
I  notice  the  names  of  Lydia  K.  and  Elizabeth  T.  Bar. 
stow,  of  Providence,  daughters  of  John  Barstow,  Esq., 
who  many  years  afterward  established  a  fund  for  the 
Hanover  Academy.  From  the  accounts  given  of  Miss 
Johnson  by  her  pupils,  I  should  judge  her  to  have  been 
an  excellent  teacher.  The  closing  words  of  the  valedic- 
tory address,  spoken  by  Miss  Adeline  Collamore,  were 
without  doubt  sincerely  and  truthfully  spoken.  Ad- 
dressing her  associates  in  study  she  says  : 

"  Let  us  express  our  gratitude  to  her  who  so  long  and 
faithfully  instructed  us.  Accept  our  thanks,  dear 
teacher,  for  your  unwearied  exertions  in  promoting  use- 
ful knowledge  among  us,  for  your  forbearance  with  our 
many  faults,  and  for  the  schenies  you  have  continually 
devised  for  our  improvement  and  happiness  while  under 
your  care.      It  is  with    unmeasured    feelings    of    regret 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  33 

that  we  now  bid  you  farewell,  and  while  distance  shall 
separate  us  from  you,  ever  indulge  the  assurance  that 
in  the  hearts  of  your  pupils,  your  memory  is  cherished 
w^ith  gratitude  and  affection."  And  in  one  of  several 
helpful  letters  recently  received  from  her,  now  Mrs. 
Adeline  (Collamore)  Briggs  of  Neponset,  she  thus 
speaks  :  "Under  Miss  Johnson's  excellent  tuition  in 
Hanover's  classic  halls,  my  school  days  ended.  Tht? 
memory  of  those  days  is  to  me  an  ever  recurring  delight 
and  will  always  be  held  in  grateful  remembrance.  As 
a  teacher,  she  was  most  successful  in  winning  the  love 
and  confidence  of  her  pupils.  Uniformly  kind  and 
courteous,  of  a  sweet  and  lovable  disposition,  she  won 
all  hearts  at  once.  The  hardest  task  became  a  pleas- 
ure under  her  encouraging  guidance."  Another  of  her 
pupils,  but  evidently  one  of  the  youngest  class,  has  a 
distinct  recollection  that  she  had  "very  red  hair."  She 
afterward  taught  in  Salem,  N.  H.,  and  then  obtained  a 
very  desirable  situation  as  private  instructress  in  the 
family  of  a  wealthy  rice  planter  residing  in  George- 
town, S.  C. 

We  herewith  give  a  list  of  Miss  Johnson's  pupils,  as 
preserved  by  one  of  the  scholars,  Julia  Collamore,  sister 
of  the  above  named  valedictorian — the  first  list  of  the 
Academy  female  students  which  has  come  to  my  knowl- 
edge. 

Adeline  Collamore,  Julia  Collamore,  Sylvia  B.  Water- 
man, Elizabeth  Dwelley,  Jane  Hersey,  Lydia  Church, 
Louisa  Bowker,  Huldah  Stetson,  Amelia  Josselyn, 
Amelia  Barstow,  Elizabeth  Barstow,  Louisa  Wood, 
Eliza  Hobart,  Louisa  Farnham,  Eliza  Dyer,  Cynthia 
Dyer,  Sarah  A.  Bates,  Jane  R.  Oldham,  Lois  C.  Stet- 
son, Helena  M.  T.  Eells,  Sarah  Barstow,   Harriet  Bar- 


34  HISTORY     OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

Stow,  Lydia  W.  Collamore,  Celia  Percival,  Lydia  K. 
Barstow,  Elizabeth  T.  Barstow,  Helen  Smith,  Louisa 
Clark,  Sarah  Hitchcock,  Polly  B.  Talbot,  Judith  Ham- 
mond, Mary  Stetson,  Susan  Turner  (of  Pembroke). 

JosiAH  Fuller  (1838-39)  the  son  of  Robert  and  Rho- 
da  (French)  Fuller,  and  grandson  of  Dr.  Noah  Fuller 
of  Wrentham,  Mass.,  and  Westmoreland,  N.  H.,  was 
born  in  Westmoreland.  After  leaving  Hanover  he 
went  to  Honolulu,  S.  I.,  where  he  edited  a  paper  and 
was  superintendent  of  the  Royal  Schools  during  the 
reign  of  Kamehameha  HI,  who  was  a  fast  friend  of  the 
missionaries.  I  am  told  that  he  there  married  Marga- 
ret Mills  of  Natick,  Mass.,  who  went  to  Honolulu  to 
visit  her  sister,  the  wife  of  Rev.  S.  C.  Damon,  D.  D., 
the  Seaman's  chaplain  of  that  place.  They  had  two 
sons,  who  are  married  and  still  live  in  Honolulu;  also  a 
daughter,  Elizabeth,  w^ho  died  in  California.  He  became 
interested  in  the  California  mines  and  finally  moved  to 
Oakland,  Cal.,  where  he  died  some  ten  years  since. 

Before  coming  to  Hanover,  Mr.  Fuller  taught  the 
Union  Bridge  District  School  in  Scituate,  and  boarded 
with  a  relative  of  mine,  by  which  means  I  first  became 
acquainted  with  him.  By  virtue  of  this  aquaintance,  I 
was  induced  to  attend  the  Academy  when  it  came  under 
his  supervision.  Here  was  the  turning  point  of  my  life. 
Had  it  not  been  for  his  boarding  where  he  did,  had  it  not 
been  for  this  Academy  and  his  coming  here  as  a  teach- 
er, I  probably  should  have  remained  on  the  *'Bald  Hill 
Farm"  all  the  rest  of  my  days.  How  strange  that  one 
little  thing  will  so  affect  our  entire  destiny  !  Not  only 
so,  but  the  .mystery  of  life  is  such  that,  methinks,  it 
takes  ten  thousand  little  things  to    place    us    where   we 


HISTORY   OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  35 

are  and  to  make  us  what  we  are.  And  so  it  has  been 
with  all  our  ancestors  ! 

Mr.  Fuller's  sister  Elizabeth  kept  a  female  school  in 
the  upper  hall.  In  her  third  and  last  term  she  had  28 
pupils.  She  subsequently  married  Calvin  McQuestion, 
M.  D.,  of  Hamilton,  Canada,  who  died  some  years  since. 
Afterwards,  she  went  to  live  with  her  niece,  Mrs.  Arch- 
ibald McKeand  {nee  Currier)  of  Chicago,  and  is  now  de- 
ceased. 

A  list  of  Miss  Fuller's  scholars  is  also  given  by  Miss 
Collamore.  Among  them  we  find  the  following  new 
names  : 

Angeline  Peterson,  Mercy  Wright,  Mary  Cushing, 
Lydia  Clark,  Ann  S.  Dwellcy,  Caroline  Hildreth,  Har- 
riet Hiidreth,  Elizabeth  Torrance,  Rachel  A.  Fuller, 
Lucy  Josselyn,  Elizabeth  Stetson,  Deborah  Briggs, 
Nancy  Percival,  Mary  Salmond,  Elizabeth  Eells,  Abby 
Pratt,  Elizabeth  Pratt,  Lucy  Dyer,  Sarah  Dyer,  Eliza 
Talbot,  Frances  Cushing,  Mary  J.  Hilborn,  Eliza  Ellis, 
Lucy  E.  Boynton,  Grace  F.  Barstow. 

The  outlines  of  Rev.  Cyrus  Holmes'  life  are  given 
in  Mr.  Barry's  Hanover  History.  He  was  born  in  Hal- 
ifax, July  9,  1800,  studied  at  Phillips  Exeter  Academy, 
graduated  (according  to  Barry)  at  Dartmouth,  1828,* 
and  at  Andover  Theological  Seminary  in  183 1,  taught 
in  Woburn  1831-35  and  Northampton,  preached  for  a 
while  until  his  health  failed  him,  and  then  came  to  Han- 
over in  1840  and  was  Principal  of  the  Academy  for 
some  eight  years,  until  1848,  the  year  before  his  death. 
So  highly  was  he  esteemed  by  his   fellow-citizens   that 

*I  only  find  that  Dartmouth  College  conferred  upon  him  the 
honorary  degree  of  A.  M.  in  1835.  His  name  does  not  appear  on 
the  list  of  graduates. 


36  HISTORY    OF    HA\0\'ER    ACADEMY. 

without  his  seeking,  he  was  elected  as  Representative 
to  our  Legislature  for  1848-9.  I  had  just  made  a  begin- 
ning in  Latin  under  Mr.  Fuller,  but  it  was  under  Mr, 
Holmes'  tuition  that  I  mainly  received  my  fitting  for 
college. 

Mr.  Holmes  was  a  unique  personality.  Coming  into 
the  school  room  the  first  morning,  and  in  marked  con- 
trast with  his  immediate  predecessor,  he  seemed    to    us 


REV.   CYRUS    HOLMES. 

quite  farmer-like  in  look  and  dress  and  slightly  un- 
kempt in  appearance,  and  we  were  at  first  some- 
what abashed.  But  we  soon  found  out  that  he  was 
a  man  of  keen  intellectual  powers,  of  scholarly  attain- 
ments, and  a  very  superior  teacher  who  had  a  most 
happy  and  effective  use  of  the  tongue.  He  had  but  lit- 
tle need  of  high-priced,  complicated  philosophical  appa- 
ratus for  instructive  teaching.       With  his    pencil    or    a 


THSTOKV    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  3/ 

chip  or  a  piece  of  coal  or  something  equally  simple,  he 
could  illustrate  much  which  admitted  of  illustration.  A 
line  from  one  of  his  pupils  who  subsequently  became  a 
teacher,  Mr.  Andrew  T.  Magoun,  shows  how  interest- 
ing and  deeply  instructive  w^as  Mr.  Holmes  in  his 
(ethical)  teaching  of  one  branch  of  English  Grammar. 
"We  used  to  parse  out  of  Young's  Night  Thoughts.* 
Sometimes  we  would  have  quite  an  interesting  discus- 
sion. Mr.  Holmes  liked  to  have  each  one  express  his 
views  freely.  I  recollect  on  one  occasion  he  said  he 
would  as  soon  think  of  eating  a  quarter  of  beef  at  a 
meal  as  of  readincr  Youno:'s  Nisfht  Thoughts  without 
pondering  the  subject  under  consideration." 

Mr.  Holmes  also  had  but  little  use  for  the  rattan. 
With  his  tono-ue  he  could  shame  and  subdue  the  most 
refractory  and  grind  out  a  tear  from  the  most  stubborn 
and  obdurate,  and  he  would  seldom  quit  a  subject  of 
discipline   until  he  had  accomplished  his  purpose.      On 

one  occasion,  when    a  girl  named  Ruth had  been 

acting  naughtily,  he  proposed  to  preach  a  short  ser- 
mon to  the  school,  and  said  he  would  take  his  text  from 
the  book  of  Ruth  :  Be  ashamed.  I  believe  the  text 
cannot  be  found  there,  but  Ruth  was  most  thoroughly 
ashamed.  The  two  girls  who  in  sport  forged  a  letter 
purporting  to  be  from  a  young  man,  inviting  a  certain 
academy  girl  with  whom    he    had    no    acquaintance    to 

*  Speaking  of  "parsing,"  reminds  me  of  a  little  incident  in  mv 
own  experience  in  that  line  under  Mr.  Holmes.  I  was  giving  the 
"subject  nominative"  of  a  Greek  verb,  which,  by  an  indistinct  pro- 
nunciation might  stand  either  for  we  or  vou  (in  Greek  hemeis  or 
humeis).  Perhaps,  as  being  a  little  uncertain,  I  pronounced  the 
word  somewhat  indistinctly;  whereupon  I  was  asked  :  "What 
kind  of  ;«^/5  (mice)  Ford.?"  "He-meis,"  was  my  reply,  which  was 
correct. 


3b  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

take  a  beach  ride — which  letter  was  taken  in  earnest — 
will  never  forget  the  flood  of  tears  which  were  shed  be- 
fore their  teacher  got  done  with  them.  Other  anec- 
dotes in  regard  to  Mr.  Holmes  can  be  found  in  a  com- 
memorative poem  on  a  later  page. 

Still,  Mr.  Holmes'  spirit  and  manner  were  ever  gen- 
ial and  gentle,  and  his  pleasant  and  brilliant  repartees 
and  off-hand  sayings  were  indescribable  and  can 
never  be  forgotten  by  those  who  heard  them.  It  is  al- 
most needless  to  say  that  as  a  teacher  and  companion, 
he  was  to  an  unusual  degree,  beloved  and  respected  by 
his  pupils.  I  have  enjoyed  the  instruction  of  Dr.  Fran- 
cis Wayland  and  of  other  distinguished  teachers,  but  I 
never  lost  my  regard  and  respect  for  Mr.  Holmes.*  With 

*Well  do  I  recollect  the  day  when  a  lad,  making  my  first  visit  to 
Providence,  1S41,  before  there  were  any  railroads  in  Plymouth 
county  (the  "  Old  Colony"  being  opened  in  1846  and  the  "Han- 
over Branch"  in  ISGS)  I  took  a  stage-coach  to  Taunton,  and  passing 
by  the  Academy  building,  beheld  Mr.  Holmes  coming  out  of  school 
that  by  his  presence  he  might  give  me  his  kindly  benediction.  What 
that  student  lad,  in  after  j-ears  accomplished,  especially  in  the  way 
of  literary  effort— all  too  meagerly  and  imperfectly — maybe  learned 
in  part  from  the  following  sketch  of  his  public  life  as  given  sub- 
stantially in  the  Historical  Catalogue  of  Brown  University  : 

David  Barnes  Ford,  A.  B.  IS-t.")  (A.  M.  1848,  D.  D.  1S9S)  gradu- 
ated Newton  Theological  Institution  1848;  assistant  instructor  in 
Hebrew,  Newton,  1848  and  1849;  ordained  Baptist,  1851;  pastor. 
Canton,  Mass.,  1851-1854 ;  for  several  years  a  supply  in  Marshfield, 
Mass.  Author:  Perthes'  Life  of  Chrysostojn,  translated  in  con- 
junction with  Alvah  Hovey,  1854;  Sfndtes  on  the  Buffistnal  Ques- 
tion with  Review  of  J.  W.  Dale,  1879;  Centennial  History  of  First 
Baptist  Church,  Marshfield,  1888;  Commentary  oti  Romans,  in  con- 
junction with  Prof.  A.  N.  Arnold,  1889;  The  Life-Work  of  Isaac 
Backus,  with  Memorial  Exercises  at  the  dedication  of  the  Backus 
Monument,  1893;  Ne7v  England's  Struggles  for  Religious  Liberty, 
1896;  TheMeeti?igsofthe  Warren  Association  in  the  Old  Colony, 
1896;  Contributor  to  the  Christian  Review,  Bibliotheca  Sacra,  and 
Gth-^r  periodicals. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  39 

the  exception  of  Mr.  Chaddock,  his  term  of  teaching  here 
was  longer  than  that  of  any  other  Principal  of  the  Acad- 
emy. Mr.  Holmes  died  Aug,  i6,  1849,  and  ^^^  buried 
in  Pembroke  Centre  cemetery,  where  the  remains  of 
his  wife,  Sophia  (Collamore)  Holmes  have  since  been 
placed  by  his  side.  The  accompanying  portrait  of  Mr, 
Holmes  was  taken  from  a  somewhat  faded  daguerreo- 
type, but  I  think  it  looks  quite  life-like.  He  was  a 
person  of  medium  height,  of  spare  build,  having  bright, 
dark  eyes  and  a  thin  face  which  was  slightly  sallowish 
in  complexion,  the  result,  perhaps,  of  long  continued  ill- 
health. 

The  same  methodical  and  careful  one  who  has  given 
us  the  preceding  lists,  has  also  preserved  the  names  of 
Mr.  Holmes'  pupils  who  attended  the  first  two  terms  : 

Samuel  Tolman,  David  B.  Ford,  Augustus  Colla- 
more, Francis  Collamore,  Theodore  Collamore,  Robert 
Hersey,  Robert  Sylvester,  Charles  Torrey,  Bailey  H. 
Hitchcock,  Robert  S.  Curtis,  Joseph  Barstow,  Freder- 
ic O.  Barstow,  James  Turner.  Elisha  Stetson,  James 
R.  Smith,  Edmund  O.Sylvester,  Edward  Barstow,  Rob- 
ert Barstow,  Joshua  Fuller,  Joshua  J.  Ellis,  Charles 
Brooks,  William  Clark,  Franklin  E.  Felton,  Cyrus  Mor- 
ton, Jolin  B.  Bates,  Samuel  House,  Robert  Salmond, 
Walter  Clift. 

Only  two  new  names  of  female  students  are  recorded: 
Priscilla  Clark  and  Ann   Eliza  Josselyn. 

I  know  of  no  list  of  students  kept  by  Mr.  Holmes 
daring  his  many  years  of  teaching.  And  about  half  the 
teachers  who  have  taught  since,  even  though  they  may 
have  kept  lists,  have  not  left  any  behind  them  to  my 
knowledge.  It  is  a  source  of  unfeigned  regret  to  me 
that  I    cannot    give  all  the  names  of   our  Academy  stu- 


40  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

dents,  especially  as  I  can  think  of  very  many  whom  I 
would  delight  to  mention. 

After  the  preceding  paragraph  was  in  type  I  received 
from  Mr.  Holmes'  daughter,  Sophia  A.,  wife  of  Mr. 
Emmons  Hatch,  of  Winchester,  a  list  of  names  taken 
from  an  Album  bed-quilt  which  was  presented  to  Mr. 
Holmes  in  1848,  the  last  year  of  his  teaching,  by  his 
students  in  the  Academy.  This  list  of  names,  though 
amounting  to  some  seventy  in  number,  does  not  of 
course  give  but  a  small  part  of  all  his  Academy 
scholars. 

Elizabeth  T.  Waterman,  Samuel  G.  Cutler,  Albert  B. 
Howland,  John  B.  Bates,  Henry  Clark,  Mary  Pratt, 
Lucy  S.  Dyer,  Betsey  S.  Magoun,  Mary^Collamore,  Eliz- 
abeth C.  Sturtevant,  Chloe  S.  Perry,  Jared  Gardner, 
Priscilla  Eells,  Helena  M.  Eells,  Ruth  M.  Eells,  Anna 
L.  Eells,  Sarah  A.  Bates,  Haviland  Barstow,  Harriet  R. 
Blackman,  Reuben  Bates,  Sarah  H.  Collamore,  George 
A.  Collamore,  Julia  Collamore,  Robert  S.  Curtis,  Mary 

A.  Clark,  Marcia  Collamore,  Sophia  B.   Clark,   Huldah 

B.  Dwelley,  George  R.  Dvvelley,  Charles  Dyer,  R.  Cor- 
nelia Dyer,  Nathan  H.  Dwelley,  William  P.  Duncan, 
Dorothy  B.  Dyer,  Frederick  Hatch,  Henry  Hersey, 
Louisa  E.  Hatch,  Lucinda  Hatch,  Marcia  Josselyn, 
George  S.  Josselyn,  Eliza  A.  Josselyn,  M.  Josephine 
Josselyn,  Ann  R.  Haynes,  Hulda  S.  Magoun,  Nancy 
W.  Percival,  Emmeline  A.  Pratt,  Elias  E.  Pratt,  Davis  D. 
Randall,  B.  F.  Sylvester,  Joseph  C.  Stockbridge,  Sarah 
M.  Sturtevant,  Sarah  J.  Sylvester,  Alphonso  F.  Sturte- 
vant, W.  H.  Stetson,  Catherine  A.  Stetson,  Mary  Sal- 
mond,  Hulda  M.   Stetson,  I.    B.  Talbot,  James    Turner, 

A.  H.  Talbot,  E.  S.    Talbot,  Edward  F.  Wood,  William 

B.  Wood,  Henry  A.  Wood,  Lydia  C.  Waterman,  Joseph 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  4I 

E.  Wilder,  Isaac  Wilder,  Thomas  B,  Waterman,  William 
C.  Oakman,  Jr. 

Mr.  Holmes,  as  we  have  said,  died  Aug  i6,  1849.  We 
subjoin  a  Soxg  by  an  unknown  writer,  ''Respectfully 
Dedicated  to  the  Memory  of  the  late  Rev.  Cyrus 
Holmes,"  Avhich  was  sung  to  the  tune  of  "Long,  Long 
Ago,"  at  the  Academy  Exhibition,  Oct.  12,  1849: 

"  Kind  was  the  heart  which  in  sympathy  beat ; 

Now  it  is  still — it  is  still. 
Sweet  was  the  smile  which  we  all  loved  to  greet; 

But  it  has  fled— it  has  fled. 
Past  are  those  moments  of  social  delight, 
Faded  and  fled  are  the  scenes  once  so  bright, 
Shrouded  the  brightness  of  morning  in  night; 

For  he  is  gone — he  is  gone. 

Weep  not  for  him  when  you  stand  by  his  grave, 

lie  has  gone  home — has  gone  home. 
Bright  is  his  crown  in  the  hoine  of  the  saved, 

He  has  gone  home — has  gone  home. 
Peaceful  his  rest  in  the  home  of  the  dead. 
Peaceful  the  shadows  that  fall  on  his  bed, 
Weep  not  for  him.  for  the  spirit  has  fled 
Up  to  its  home — to  its  home. 

Weep  not  for  him  when  vou  muse  on  the  past. 

He  has  gone  home — has  gone  home. 
Joy  that  his  sufterings  are  ended  at  last, 

And  he's  gone  liome — he's  gone  home. 
Let  each  meinento  of  him  who  has  gone — " 

(The  remaining  lines  of  the  stanza  are  wanting  in  the 
copy  which  I  have  quoted). 

Mr.  Charles  Hitchcock  (1848-49)  while  pursuing 
the  studies  of  the  Sophomore  year  in  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege, taught  the  Hanover  Academy  two  terms  during 
the  Fall  of  1848  and  the  Winter  of  1848-49.  He  was  a 
descendant  of  the    distinguished   Rev.  Dr.  Gad    Hitch- 


42 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 


cock  of  the  West  Parish  of  Pembroke,  now  Hanson, 
while  his  maternal  great-grandfather  vyas  Dr.  Jeremiah 
Hall,  who  bought  what  was  afterwards  known  as  the 
Horace  Collamore  place  in  North  Pembroke  about 
1748,  and  who  was  a  distinguished  physician  in  his  day 
— a  surgeon  in  the  P'rench  and  Indian  war,  1758,  a 
member  of  the  Provincial  Congress  in   1774,  and    a  col- 


CHARLES    HITCHCOCK. 


onel  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  Mr.  Hitchcock,  the 
son  of  Charles  and  Abigail  Little  (Hall)  Hitchcock, 
was  born  in  Hanson,  April  4,  1827  (though  his  parents 
afterwards  lived  in  Pembroke)  studied  at  the  same 
time  with  myself  and  later  in  the  Hanover  Academy 
under  Mr.  Holmes,  afterwards,  in  1846,  entered  Phil- 
lips Andover  Academy,  graduated  at  Dartmouth  col- 
lege   185 1,    read    law   with    Hon.    Daniel   Blaisdell,    at 


HISTORY    OF    HAXOVER    ACADEMY.  43 

Hanover,  N.  H.,  one  year,  and  then  taught  the  classics 
a  year  in  Washington,  D.  C.  In  the  fall  of  1853,  he 
entered  the  senior  class  of  the  Dane  Law  School,  at 
Cambridge,  but  finished  for  the  bar  with  Harvey  Jew- 
ell at  Boston.  In  October,  1854,  he  began  practice  in 
Chicago  where,  during  a  professional  service  of  many 
years,  he  came  to  be  regarded  as  one  of  the  foremost 
lawyers  of  the  place.  A  Memorial  of  him,  printed  but 
not  published,  has  been  placed  in  my  hands,  and  surely, 
if  it  be  a  just  memorial,  no  one  could  desire  higher 
testimonials  of  character  and  worth  than  were  ren- 
dered to  his  memory  by  eminent  members  of  the  Bench 
and  Bar,  and  by  officers  of  the  Historical  Society.  On 
July  10,  i860,  he  married  Annie,  daughter  of  James 
McClare,  at  Chicago,  and  he  died  in  that  city,  May  6, 
1 88 1,  leaving  no  children.  For  some  years  he  was 
troubled  with  a  distressing  affection  of  the  heart,  for 
which  he  sought  relief  by  going  to  Europe,  but  no  cura- 
tive influences  from  abroad,  and  no  skill  of  physicians 
could  remove  or  even  alleviate  the  malady. 

I  may  here  add  that  his  sister  Sarah,  who  after 
teaching  a  brief  space  early  passed  away,  and  a 
younger  brother,  Bailey  H.  Hitchcock,  also  attended 
the  Academy  at  the  same  time  with  myself.  Bailey 
married  an  academy  pupil,  Sarah  Collamore  of  N.  Pem- 
broke, and  has  made  Toledo,  Ohio,  his  home  for  more 
than  forty  years.  He  has  one  daughter,  Mrs.  A.  C. 
Bartlett,  and  two  sons.  From  a  letter  received  from 
him,  I  learn  that  he  has  done  work  as  civil  engineer 
in  more  than  ten  states  and  in  Canada. 

George  Theodore  Wolcott  (1849)  the  son  of  Rev. 
Calvin  Wolcott,  was  born    in    Hanover   July    15,  1827. 


44  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

was  for  two  years  in  Brown  University,  where  he  grad- 
uated in  1848,  taught  here  in  Hanover  one  term  in 
1849,  and  died  Oct.  22,  185 1,  in  Ouincy,  and  his  re- 
mains were  interred  in  the  old  Weymouth  bur)ing 
ground.      He  was  never  married. 

The  following  letter  from  him  to  his  brother,  dated 
June  7,  1849,  ^s  interesting  as  showing  his  views  and 
feelings,  on  his  re-visiting  for  a  while  the  scenes  of  his 
childhood  : 

"  To-day  there  is  a  grand  ship-launch  at  the  lower 
yard,  and  I  have  given  the  school  a  half-holiday  on  the 
occasion.  There  is  as  much  excitement  among  the 
juveniles  of  the  present  day  at  such  a  time,  as  there 
used  to  be  of  yore.  They  turn  out  /';/  toto  and  throng 
the  roads,  and  the  Rainbow  path,  and  sport  along  with 
the  same  glee  as  their  predecessors  of  a  former  gener- 
ation  

"  Everything  about  the  village  is  now  most  pleasant 
and  delightful.  I  know  of  no  country  village  in  New 
England  more  a2:reeable  for  a  summer  residence  than 
Hanover.  The  trees  are  now  almost  in  full  leaf,  the  air 
is  delightfully  pure,  mild  and  fragrant,  and  as  you  go 
out  on  an  evening  stroll,  you  are  saluted  with  the  varied 
songs  of  thousands  (.''!)  of  tuneful  birds.  There  are  so 
many  delightful  walks  in  every  direction,  over  fields  and 
through  the  woods,  that  one  need  never  be  tired  of  ex- 
ploring them.  I  think  the  place  has  improved  much 
lately.  Mr.  Cutler  has  had  a  good  influence  upon  the 
people  in  the  matter  of  taste, — setting  out  shade  trees, 
&c." 

He  then  speaks  of  the  auction  sale  of  "our  old  place"' 
to  Dr.Joseph  B.Fobes,  and  almost  wishes  that  his  father 
had  bought  it.      "The  orchard,"  he  says,"'*is  one  of  the 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  45 

finest  in  the  county.  The  trees  which  father  set  out 
have  nearly  attained  their  full  size — very  large  and  beau- 
tiful. Last  week  the  orchard  on  the  lane  was  almost 
one  dense  mass  of  blossoms,  and  the  fragrance  was  per- 
ceptible at  the  Corners 

"I  have  had  the  school-room  papered,  and  intend  to 
get  it  painted  soon.  My  school  is  increasing  quite  fast. 
It  is  a  vacation  at  present  in  the  Young  Ladies'  Semi- 
nary, up  stairs." 

Why  Mr.  Wolcott  left  the  school  after  one  term 
when  everything  seemed  going  on  so  prosperously,  is 
explained  by  the  fact  that,  in  consequence  of  a  severe 
cold  he  took  when  in  college,  the  disease  of  consump- 
tion began  to  develop  itself,  and  he  took  refuge  during 
the  following  Winter  in  the  milder  climate  of  Virginia. 
But  the  end  of  earth  for  him  was  approaching,  and  in 
about  two  years  after  his  teaching  he  was  called  «p  to 
a  higher  school. 

Li  the  Autumn  of  1847,  M'ss  Mary  F.  Taggard 
opened  a  school  for  young  ladies  in  the  upper  hall  of  the 
Academy,  and  continued  to  teach  there  for  some  four 
years.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Mr.  John  Taggard  of 
Charlestown,  with  whose  business  firm  AL".  John  Syl- 
vester of  Hanover  was  at  one  time  connected.  After 
leaving  here  she  became  the  wife  of  Rev.  Thomas 
Womersley,  a  native  of  England,  who  first  studied 
medicine  and  afterwards  graduated  at  Newton  Theo- 
logical Listitution.  After  several  years  of  preaching 
service,  he  returned  to  the  practice  of  medicine,  and 
finally  died  at  Watertown,  March,  1897. 

A  letter  recently  received  from  her  recalls  so  vividly 
the  past  that  we  hesitate  not  to  give  it  to  our  readers  : 

''The  Young  Ladies'  Seminary  began  existence  in  the 


46  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

Autumn  of  1847,  under  the  auspices  of  four  residents 
of  Hanover  'Four  Corners,'  each  having  one  or  more 
daughters  of  school  age.  The  manager  was  Capt.  John 
Gushing;  the  only  teacher  was  Mary  F.  Taggard  of 
Somerville.  Outside  pupils  were  admitted,  not  exceed- 
ing twenty  in  number.  The  upper  floor  of  an  old  Ac- 
ademy building  was  a  very  pleasant  school-room  with 
ante-rooms — the  lower  floor  being  used  for  a  boys' 
school.  An  old-style  box-stove  occupied  the  centre,  a 
standing  desk  and  an  excellent  piano  were  at  one  end, 
and  a  semi-circle  of  all  that  were  fairest  and  dearest  from 
the  village  occupied  convenient  seats  with  desks  and 
other  furnishings.  There  were  happy  times  there.  The 
teacher  was  but  eighteen  years  of  age,  the  scholars  not 
far  from  the  same,  several  of  them  older.  There  was 
an  unusual  degree  of  sympathy  manifested  ;  much  in- 
terest in  the  studies  which  ranged  pretty  high  for  those 
days — and  almost  no  friction  in  the  discipline.  The 
grave  and  quiet  Mary  Salmond,  the  studious  Lizzie 
Waterman,  Agnes  Talbot,  Josephine  Josselyn,  the  tall 
daughters  of  Rev.  Mr.  Duncan,  among  the  older, — 
Sarah  Gushing,  brimful  of  energy,  the  sweet  little  Bar- 
stow  girls,  the  vivacious  Eliza  Smith  Salmond  among 
the  younger  pupils,  are  remembered  as  if  I  led  them 
but  yesterday.  Every  session  began  with  Bible-read- 
ing and  prayer.  How  well  do  I  recall  the  village  church, 
the  sociables,  the  singers'  gallery  from  which  we  had  a 
full  view  of  the  great  Daniel  Webster  as  he  came  down 
the  aisle  every  Sunday  [occasionally,  rather  T\  having 
driven  over  from  his  Marshfield  residence — the  Sab- 
bath school,  the  Wednesday  evennig  services. 

Of  the  boys'  school  below,  Mr.Wolcott,  and  then  Mr. 
McLauthlin,  was  Principal.     George  R.  Dwelley,  a  pu- 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  4/ 

pil  there  at  that  time,  has  been  Superintendent  of  our 
Watertown  schools  for,  I  think,  a  score  or  more  of 
years  and  has  just  resigned  here,"  &c. 

The  following  is  a  list  (as  written  at  the  time,  by  one 
of  the  pupils,  E.  T.  W.,)  of  young  ladies  whom  she 
taught  in  1849: 

''  Maria  E.  Soule,  Mary  Salmond,  Sarah  Hriggs,  Eliza- 
beth T.  Waterman,  Elizabeth  Ramsdell,  Sophia  B. 
Loring,  Agnes  H.  Talbot,  Mary  E.  Torrey,  Maria  C. 
Josselyn,  Huldah  B.  Dwelley,  Sarah  E.  Gushing,  Em- 
ma Barstow,  Lydia  C.  Pratt,  Lucy  A.  Barstow,  Mary 
E.  Barstow,  Ruth  M.  Eelis,  Huldah  M.  Stetson,  Eliza 
A.  Josselyn,  Ruth  W.  Stetson,  Mary  A.  Stetson,  Laura 
J.  Duncan,  Lucia  A.  Duncan,  Annie  L.  Eells,  Maria  VV. 
Wright,  Susan  Turner." 

Perhaps  nearly  a  majority  of  these  are  with  us  to 
this  day,  and  the  married  ones  are  doubtless  the  pride 
and  boast  of  their  husbands  and  children.  We  leave 
Daniel  E.  Damon,  William  Carver  Bates,  and  others 
personally  interested,  to  supply  the  rest  of  the  chapter. 

Mr.  Martin  Parris  McLauthlin  (1850-54)  was 
born  in  Duxbury,  July  24,  1825,  and  was  the  son  of 
Martin  McLauthlin  and  Hannah  Howard  Reed,  daugh- 
ter of  the  distinguished  inventor,  Col.  Jesse  Reed  of 
Marshfield.  The  family  early  moving  to  F..  Bridgewater, 
he  attended  the  Bridgewater  academies  and  then  went 
to  Phillips  Andover  Academy,  where  he  graduated 
from  the  classical  department  in  1847.  After  teaching 
the  Winter  term,  1849-50  of  the  Grammar  school  at 
North  Marshfield,  now  Marshfield  Hills,  he  became  the 
Principal  of  Hanover  Academy,  beginning  his  service 
March,  1850,  and  ending  it  in  February,  1854,  when  he 


40  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

engaged  in  business  with  his  brother.  Under  his  tui- 
tion the  Academy  attained  a  very  high  degree  of  pros- 
perity. 

On  April  lo,  i865,  Mr.  McLauthlin  married  Elizabeth 
Pease  Vincent,  second  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Ambrose 
and  Susan  (Parker)  Vincent  of  New  Bedford,  and  settled 
upon  his  father's  homestead  in    E.  Bridgewater,  where 


MARTIN    PARRIS    M  c  L  A  U  T  H  L  I  N. 

all  his  children,  six  in  number,  were  born.  He  now  re- 
sides in  Maiden,  where  his  wife  died  Nov.  22,  1890, 
leavino^  five  children.  Besides  this  loss  he  has  met  with 
other  severe  affliction.  In  Aug.  14,  1892,  his  eldest 
son,  George  Vincent,  who  was  an  instructor  in  Biology 
in  the  Mass.  Institute  of  Technology,  from  which  he 
graduated  in  1888,  died  from  drowning  at  Nahant, 
aged  24.  Another  son,  Parker  Reed,  born  Nov.  22, 
1877,  <^ie<^i  April  23d,  1896,  being  at  the  time  a  member 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  49 

of  the  above  Institute.  The  other  surviving  children 
are  Elizabeth  Rena,  Martin  Bernard,  and  Sara  Louise. 
The  son  on  June  i,  1898,  married  Miss  Grace  C.  Grant, 
and  lives  in  Maiden. 

For  the  first  two  years  Mr.  McLauthlin  taught  in  the 
old  or  second  Academy,  after  which  the  building  was 
sold  to  Mr.  Hiram  Randall  for  $375,  and  moved  some 
years  afterward  to  High  street,  Pembroke,  where  it  was 
used  for  a  carriage  and  paint  shop.  Subsequently  a  third 
story  was  added  to  the  building,  and  it  now  bears  the 
name  of  Mechanics'  Hall.  We  think  that  much  good 
work  was  done  in  that  building  while  it  stood  at  Hano- 
ver Four  Corners. 

As  illustrative  of  the  culture  received  here  in  those 
early  days,  we  give  the  following  incident  as  related  by 
a  correspondent,  the  initials  of  whose  name  we  will  give 
as  A.  B.  C. 

"  I  was  making  a  journey  by  rail  in  another  State 
when  a  gentleman  came  in  with  three  bright  little  girls 
and  took  a  seat  near  me.  I  was  attracted  by  their  ap- 
pearance and  soon  we  got  acquainted,  and  engaged'  in 
an  animated  conversation,  told  stories,  etc.  The  father 
was  a  silent  listener  for  a  while,  then  said  to  me  rather 
abruptly,  '  Will  you  please  tell  me  where  you  were  ed- 
ucated ?  I  am  engaged  in  literary  work,  and  your  lan- 
guage seems  so  spontaneous  and  correct,  and  so  differ- 
ent from  the  present  style  of  conglomeration,  I  was  in 
hopes  you  were  a  teacher  somewhere  that  I  might  send 
my  girls  to  be  educated.'  I  said  I  received  most,  I 
might  say  all,  my  education  in  a  small  country  Acade- 
my. He  said,  '  Is  it  still  in  existence,  and  teaching  on 
the  old  lines  ?  '  I  said,  *  It  is  still  there,  but  modernized 
to  suit  the  times.'     '  What  a  pity  !  '  said  he  ;  '  those  old 


50  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

academical  institutions  have  sent  out  more  real,  piacti- 
cal  students  than  all  our  modern  colleges  and  famous 
scientific  schools.  Then  only  students  studied,  because 
they  desired  knowledge  for  its  worth  ;  now  half  the  time 
is  wasted  just  to  kill  it.'  "  We  leave  our  readers  to  pass 
their  own  judgment  on  the  above,  and  to  draw  their  own 
inferences. 


PART  111. 
HANOVER    ACADEMY,    18^2-92. 

Its  Third  Building  and  its  Teachers.* 


THE   THIRD    BUILDING. 


*For  the  above  picture  I  am  indebted  to  Mr.  A.  E.  Foss  of  Need- 
ham,  publisher  of  the  Rockland  and  Hanover  Directory. 


52  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

As  Mr.  McLauthlin  was  the  last  teacher  in  the  old 
Academy,  so  he  was  the  first  teacher  in  the  new,  and 
was  indeed  greatly  efficient  in  bringing  about  the  erec- 
tion of  the  latter  building.  This  edifice,  much  more 
pretentious  in  appearance  than  the  former  ones,  stands 
some  fifteen  rods  back  from  the  street  and  from  where 
the  old  Academy  stood,  on  a  high  and  beautiful  eleva- 
tion of  land  which  commands  an  extensive  and  fine  pros- 
pect. This  said  parcel  of  land,  containing  one  acre, 
"be  the  same  more  or  less,"  was  purchased  in  1851  of 
Capt.  Nathan  Dwelley  and  wife,  who  deeded  it  to  forty- 
three  grantees,  including  two  societies,  all  whose  names 
are  seven  times  written  in  full  in  the  deed,  and  once 
with  the  proportion  paid  by  each.*  It  was  paid  for  in 
shares  amounting  to  105  in  number,  at  $1.66  1-2  per 
share,  Samuel  Salmond,  Esq.,  heading  the  list  with 
forty-two  shares  taken.  The  following  is  an  abstract  of 
the  Deed  : 

Know  all  men  by  these  Presents  that  I,  Nathan 
Dwelley,  of  Hanover,  etc., and  I,  Huldah  B.  Dwelley,  wife 
of  said  Nathan,  in  my  right,  in  consideration  of  $175,  to 
me  paid  by  Samuel  Salmond,  Robert  Sylvester,  Seth 
Barker,  Frances  Baldwin,  Alexander  Wood,  Gustavus 
Percival,  Stephen  Josselyn,  Thomas  B.  Don n ell,  Han- 
nah Barstow,  Charles  Dyer,  Robert  Hersey,  Martin  W. 
Stetson,  Hannah  Stetson,  John  P.  Eells,  Benjamin 
Whitwell,  John  Sylvester,  Nathaniel  Barstow,  Benjamin 
F.   Burgess,  Martin  P.  McLauthlin,  Michael  Sylvester, 

*Among  these  grantees  were  six  individuals,  Alexander  Wood, 
Nathaniel  Barstow,  John  B.  Barstow,  Thomas  Waterman,  Havi- 
land  Torrej  and  Luther  Rowland,  who  were  original  stockholders 
in  the  old  Academy.  Of  these  same  grantees  three  only  are  now 
living,  Robert  Sylvester,  Robert  E.  D\vellev,and  M.  P.  McLauthlin. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  53 

George  Curtis,  Warren  Wright,  Joseph  B.  Fobes,  Ed- 
mund 0.  Sylvester,  Robert  E.  Dwelley,  William  Church, 
Nathan  Dwelley,  John  B.  Barstow,  Samuel  Cutler,  as 
Rector  of  St.  Andrew's  Church,  of  Hanover  aforesaid, 
and  by  Samuel  Cutler  in  behalf  of  the  Dorcas  Society 
of  said  St.  Andrew's  Church,  and  also  by  the 
said  Samuel  Cutler  in  behalf  of  the  Young  Ladies' 
Society  of  said  St.  Andrew's  Church,  all  of  Han- 
over in  said  County  of  Plymouth  ;  and  Elijah  Bar- 
stow,  Isaac  H.  Haskins,  Abner  Stetson,  Thomas 
Waterman,  Samuel  Tolman,  Jr.,  Lemuel  C.  Waterman, 
Josiah  M.  Smith,  and  George  P.  Clapp  of  South  Scituate 
in  the  County  of  Plymouth,  aforesaid  ;  and  Levi  Sturte- 
vant,  Jr.,  Haviland  Torrcy  and  Adam  Billings  of  Pem- 
broke in  said  County,  and  Luther  Howland,  of  Hanson 
in  said  County,  the  receipt  whereof  is  hereby  acknowl- 
edged, do  hereby  give,  grant,  bargain,  sell,  and  convey 
unto  the  said  (Salmond  and  others)  a  certain  piece  of 
woodland  lying  near  the  Four  Corners,  so  called,  in  said 
Hanover,  containing  one  acie  and  bounded  as  follows 

or  however  otherwise  bounded — to  them 

and  to  their  heirs  or  successors  forever  ;  reserving  to 
myself  and  to  my  heirs  or  assigns  the  right  of  passing 
and  repassing  the  same — hereby  also  granting  a  passage 
from  said  above  granted  premises  to  the  highway  lead- 
ing from  said  Four  Corners  in  said  Hanover  to  Bridge- 
water,  40  feet  wide,  with  a  full  and  perfect  right  of  oc- 
cupancy of  the  same,  for  and  during  the  time  that  the 
before  granted  premises  shall  be  improved  for  a  school, 
— and  the  above  named  grantees  hereby  bind  themselves 
and  their  successors  to  erect  and  maintain  around  said 
granted  premises  a  good  and  substantial  picket  fence, 
supported  by  stone  posts — and  the  said  grantees  further 


54  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

bind  themselves  and  their  heirs  or  successors  that  the 
land  of  said  Nathan  and  Huldah  B.  Dwelley  adjoining 
the  above  granted  premises  shall  not  be  injured  or  in 
any  manner  trespassed  upon  by  the  occupants  of  the 
'above  granted  premises,  and  the  said  grantees  yet  fur- 
ther bind  themselves  and  their  heirs  or  successors 
that  nothing  of  a  sectarian  nature  shall  pertain  to  the 
above  said  school. 

To  have  and  to  hold  the  above  granted  premises  with 
the  privileges  and  appurtenances  thereto  belonging  to 
them  the  said  (Salmond  and  others),  their  heirs  and 
assigns  to  their  use  and  behoof  forever. 

And  the  said  grantors  do  covenant  with  the  said 
(Salmond  and  others)  that  we  are  lawfully  seized  in  fee 
of  the  afore  granted  premises,  that  they  are  free  from 
all  incumbrances,  that  we  have  good  ri^rht  to  sell  and 
convey  the  same  to  the  said  (Salmond  and  others),  and 
that  we  will  and  our  heirs,  Executors  and  Administra- 
tors shall  Warrant  and  Defend  the  same  to  the  said  (Sal- 
mond and  others),  their  heirs  and  assigns  forever 
against  the  lawful  claims  and  demands  of  all  persons. 

The  above  deed,  which  was  executed  August  5,  1851, 
was  written,  presumably,  by  Alexander  Wood,  Esq.,  of 
Hanover,  but  was  acknowledged  before  Col.  Samuel 
Tolman,  of  South  Scituate,  as  Justice  of  the  Peace.  On 
November  20th,  1852,  it  was  received  and  recorded  in 
the  Registry  of  Deeds,  Book  249,  Pages  98,  99,  100. 
William  S.  Russell,  Register. 

A  contract  for  building  the  Academy,  fencing  the 
grounds  and  digging  a  well,  was  made  with  Robert  E. 
Dwelley  for  the  sum  of  $2240.  The  digging  of  a  cellar 
for  wood-room,  etc.,  was  not  in  the  original  contract, 
and  of  course  was  an  extra  expense.     There  was  paid  to 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  55 

Nathan  Dwelley  for  six-ninths  of  the  old  Academy, 
$300,  and  to  Samuel  Salmond,  Haviland  Torrey,  and  J.  B. 
Barstow,  who  each  owned  one-ninth,  $150.  A  bell  cost- 
ing $138,  was  given  by  Mary  Sahnond,  eldest  daughter 
of  Samuel  Salmond.  Including  these  items  we  find  the 
total  cost  of  the  buildings  and  grounds  as  furnished  and 
prepared  to  be  $3483.52,  which  sum  was  paid  for  in  i  lo- 
shares,  at  $25  per  share,  together  with  individual  sub- 
scriptions, donations  from  the  Young  Ladies'  Society^ 
and  proceeds  from  the  sale  of  the  old  Academy.  All 
the  grantees  mentioned  in  the  Deed,  and  four  others^ 
T.  H.  C.  Barstow,  Rev.  Abel  G.  Duncan,  Dr.  A.  C. 
Garratt,  and  IVTelzar  Hatch,  who  by  paying  $25  each, 
and  by  signing  the  Constitution  and  By-laws  became 
entitled  ''  to  all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  proprietors,'* 
took  shares  in  the  same — Mr.  Salmond  heading  the  list 
with  42  shares  taken.  Taking  into  account  all  that  Mn 
Salmond  and  family  did  for  this  new  building  and  sub- 
sequently for  the  school,  we  think  it  might  have  been 
properly  named  the  Salmond  Academy.* 

The  school  was  kept  in  the  lower  part  of  the  building,, 
while  the  upper  hall  was  early  furnished  with  a  carpet, 
settees,  curtain  fixtures,  etc.  By  formal  vote  the  build- 
ing was  to  be  used  only  for  "  educational,  moral  and  lit- 

*On  occasion  of  the  death  of  Mr.  Salmond,  May  28th,  1859,  the 
Trustees  passed  the  following  Resolve  : 

■'As  a  benefactor  and  a  practical  advocate  of  education  he  was 
deservedly  esteemed  bv  this  community.  His  demise,  while  a  pub- 
lic loss,  is  more  particularly  a  loss  to  education  and  religion,  and 
while  the  dispensation  of  Providence  is  a  subject  of  regret  to  the 
friends  of  the  Academy,  they  bear  a  grateful  testimonial  to  his 
unfeigned  liberality."  A  subsequent  teacher,  Mr.  Conant,  in  a 
letter  recently  received,  says,  "  Had  it  not  been  lor  his  (Mr.  Sal- 
mond's)  help,  his  influence,  and  his  willing,  earnest  daughter,  I 
hardly  think  the  new  Academy  would  have  been  built." 


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58  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

erary  purposes,  purely  and  unquestionably  as  such." 
Subsequently  its  uses  were  enlarged,  and  a  considerable 
income  was  derived  therefrom.  It  has  been  rented  to 
the  Episcopal,  Congregational  and  Methodist  Societies 
for  religious  services,  sewing  circles,  fairs,  festivals,  etc., 
and  once,  in  i860,  for  a  "  Friends'  Meeting;  ''  also  for 
divers  exhibitions,  concerts,  singing  schools,  gymnastic 
class,  Brass  band,  Lyceum,  panoramic  shows,  flower 
shows,  divers  lectures  on  education,  temperance,  phren- 
ology, politics  (including  one  Kansas  meeting)  and  once 
at  least  to  "  Comical  Brown." 

The  most  noted  assemblage  that  ever  gathered  in  the 
upper  hall  was  at  the  dedication  of  the  Soldiers'  Monu- 
ment, July  17,  1878,  when  a  carload  of  dignitaries  ar- 
rived from  Boston,  including  Governor  Rice,  Speaker 
Long,  General  Banks,  Secretary  Pierce,  and  many 
others,  all  of  whom  repaired  thither  to  partake  of  "a 
substantial  and  inviting  breakfast  provided  by  the  gen- 
erous hospitality  of  the  ladies  of  the  venerable  parish  of 
St.  Andrew."  (See  Dedication  Pamphlet,  pp  9,  10). 
We  may  here  also  state  that  many  of  the  most  dis- 
tinguished orators  of  the  day  have  given  lectures  in  the 
Hall  under  the  auspices  of  the  Lyceum  Club,  of  which 
we  may  speak  further  on. 

On  Sept,  22,  185 1,  a  Constitution  and  By-laws  as 
prepared  chiefly  by  Mr  McLauthlin  were  adopted, 
under  which  constitution,  early  the  next  year,  the  fol- 
lowing Board  of  Trustees  were  elected  :  Samuel  Sal- 
mond,  Esq.,  Rev.  Samuel  Cutler,  Rev.  Abel  G.  Duncan, 
Dr.  Alfred  C.  Garratt,  Seth  Barker,  Capt.  Elijah  Bar- 
stow  and  M.  P.  McLauthlin,  ex  officio. 

On  Sept.  29,  Mr.  McLauthlin,  Charles  Dyer,  and  Rev. 
Samuel  Cutler  were  appointed   "  a   Committee  to  pre- 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  59 

pare,  if  they  think  it  expedient,  for  the  dedication  of  the 
New  Academy." 

The  printed  Order  of  Exercises  as  prepared  by  the 
Committee  reads  as  follows  : 

dedication  of 

HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

Hanover,   Mass., 

On  Tuesday,  March  2,  1852,  at  2  o'clock,  P.  M. 

Voluntary. 

Invocatory  Prayer,  by  Rev.  A.  G.  Duncan. 

HYMN. 
Bv  Miss  Liicv  S.  Delano. 
Whj  meet  we  here,  a  happy  band.'* 

VVithin  these  new-raised  walls. 
Erected  by  the  artists'  hand, 
Whose  touch  the  forest  falls. 

We've  come  to  dedicate  a  shrine. 

To  lill  with  richest  lore; 
Where  trutli  and  puritj'  may  shine, 

And  wisdom's  depths  explore. 

And  here  let  little  children  come 

Secure  from  all  that  harms, 
Drawn  gently,  as  the  Holy  One 

Once  called  them  to  His  arms. 

Thy  blessing,  Father,  on  us  here, 

Thy  favor  each  would  share  ; 
Teachers  and  children,  without  fear. 

We  give  unto  Thy  care. 

Dedicatory    Address,  by  Rev.  E.  Porter  Dyer. 
Dedicatory  Prayer,  by  Rev.  Samuel  Cutler. 


60  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

HYMN. 
Bj  Rev.  E.   Porter  Djer. 
The  Pilgrim  left  his  native  land 

A  thousand  leagues  behind, 
In  drear  New  England's  wilderness 

A  dwelling  place  to  find. 
He  came  in  faith  across  the  sea, 

Andlol  the  desert  smiled; 
A  meeting-house  he  built  for  self, 

A  school-house  for  his  child. 

For  well  he  knew  his  sturdy  faith, 

Bequeathed  unto  his  heir, 
Would  flourish  in  a  cultured  soil 

The  best  of  any  where. 
He  therefore  eschewed  ignorance, 

And  planted  Learning's  tree. 
Among  whose  glorious  later  fruits 

Stands  our  Acadkmy. 
Then  hail  the  day  Avhich  bids  us  meet 

With  services  Divine, 
To  consecrate  to  Learning's  self. 

Another  graceful  shrine; 
Where  Science  leagued  with  Literature, 

May  shed  a  cheerful  ray 
On  generations  that  shall  rise, 

When  Ave  are  passed  away. 
And  distant  be  the  woful  hour, 

The  period  long  remote. 
Ere  Time  or  Flame  these  beauteous  walls 

To  ruin  shall  devote. 
Meanwhile,  be  theirs  tiie  rich  reward, 

Who  reared  this  classic  dome, 
Tliat  literature  and  science  here. 

Have  found  a  pleasing  home. 

Addresses. 

HYMN. 
By  Rev.  A.  G.  Duncan. 
Lord,  our  God,  Thy  wondrous  glory, 
In  our  song  we  celebrate  ; 


HISTORY    OF.  HANOVER    ACADEMY.  6l 

Not  for  fields  with  carnage  gory, 
Won  frotn  foes  in  deadly  hate, 

But  for  peaceful 
Fruits,  that  now  we  dedicate. 

Thanks  w^e  give,  and  seek  Thy  hlessing 

On  our  humble  enterprise; 
In  Thy  ways  still  onward  pressing. 

In  Thy  wisdom  we  are  wise. 
Strong  and  faithful 

Make  us,  as  we  higher  rise. 

For  Thy  glory,  may  this  building 

Learning's  favored  temple  stand, 
With  a  gushing  fountain  yielding 

Streams  to  gladden  e'er  each  band 
Gathering  hither. 

Youth  I   the  hope  of  Freedoin's  land. 

On  th'  immortal  leaves,  unfolding. 

Of  the  youthful  mind  and  heart. 
Be  inscribed  bright  lines  for  moulding 

By  fair  virtue's  heavenly  art. 
Youthful  genius, 

In  Thy  cause  to  act  its  part. 

Bexedictiox. 

We  here  subjoin  Mr.  Dyer's  Address,  vvliich,  accord- 
iu'j;  to  the  Records,  was  pubHshed  by  request  and  paid 
for  by  subscription.  The  author  in  a  Prefatory  note 
says:  *' This  Address  was  written  and  delivered  with- 
out a  thought  on  my  part  that  a  copy  of  it  would  ever 
be  required  for  the  press." 

"  Ladies  and  Gentlemen  : — The  occasion  which  has 
brought  us  together  in  this  place  and  at  this  hour,  is  an 
occasion  of  no  ordinary  interest. 

We  are  assembled  to  set  apart  and  dedicate  this 
House,  with  becoming  religious  services,  to  the  pur- 
poses of  sound  learning  and  instruction. 


62  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

In  compliance  with  an  invitation  from  the  Com- 
mittee of  Proprietors,  I  appear  before  you  to  offer,  in 
connection  with  these  services,  a  brief  Introductory 
Address. 

Sincerely  do  I  regret,  as  I  have  often  regretted 
since  accepting  the  invitation,  that  this  duty  had  not  de- 
volved on  some  abler  and  better  man,  who,  if  not  a  more 
ardent  friend  of  the  Cause  of  Sound  Learning  than  I 
am,  might,  nevertheless,  be  more  thoroughly  posted  up 
in  the  unwritten  history  of  modern  Education,  and  every 
way  better  able  to  add  to  the  exercises  ofthis  occasion 
a  becoming  charm. 

But  I  stand  beforeyou  with  aheart  deeply  impressed 
with  the  importance  of  sound  learning.  And  sincerely 
do  I  rejoice  with  you  in  the  blessing  which,  after  so 
much  of  deliberation  and  anxiety  and  effort  and  cost, 
has  at  length  crowned  your  enterprise  with  such  abund- 
ant success. 

In  my  judgment  it  is  no  light  thing  to  assume  the 
responsibility  of  developing  and  moulding  the  intel- 
lectual character  of  a  single  pupil.  It  is  no  slight  bless- 
ing conferred  on  an  individual,  on  society,  on  the  world, 
when  that  individual  is  thoroughly  educated  and  fitted 
to  occupy  as  a  citizen  of  the  world,  positions  of  respon- 
sibility and  trust.  The  man  who  takes  up  one  such  in- 
dividual, though  a  lad  from  the  streets,  and  educates 
and  gives  him  to  the  world,  becomes  a  benefactor  of  his 
race.  What  then  must  be  the  richness  and  extent  of 
that  manifold  blessing  which  confers  an  education  on  the 
whole  neighborhood  and  of  an  entire  generation.  But 
your  work  contemplates  blessing  not  one  neighborhood 
alone,  but  many.  The  structure  you  have  reared  is 
substantial.     You  expect  the  feet  of  more  than  one  gen- 


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eration  of  youths  will  cross  its  threshold  to  obtain  in- 
struction within  its  consecrated  walls.  And  doubtless, 
long  after  most  of  you  who  have  been  deeply  interested 
and  actively  engaged  in  its  erection,  shall  have  been 
gathered  to  your  fathers,  this  noble  edifice,  standing 
where  you  have  reared  it,  and  proffering  the  advantages 
of  an  Academic  Education  to  all,  wnll  w^elcome  to  its 
halls  a  multitude  of  those  who  shall  come  after  you  on 
the  journey  of  life.  Your  children's  children  w-ill  eat 
the  fruit  of  the  tree  you  have  planted,  and  sit  down 
under  its  shadow  with  great  delight  And  this  institu- 
tion so  cherished  by  you  who  have  furnished  to  learning 
this  beautiful  asylum,  will  exert  on  this  community  its 
enlightening,  elevating,  refining  influences,  possibly  till 
tJiey  themselves  shall  cease  to  be  any  longer  interested 
in  all  that  is  done  under  the  sun. 

Not  without  design,  then,  stands  this  elegant  struc- 
ture here.  It  was  erected  for  a  specific  purpose.  To 
that  purpose  it  is  to  be  publicly  set  apart  and  conse- 
crated to-day.  That  we  may  be  the  better  prepared  to 
engage  in  this  service,  let  us  consider  a  moment 

The  purpose  of  its  erection,  and — 

The  manner  in  which  that  purpose  is  expected  to  be 
accomplished. 

First.  To  what  purpose  has  this  house  been  erected  "■ 
Certainly  not  to  become  a  sacred  fane,  with  its  mitred 
priest  and  its  altar,  whereon  incense  shall  be  religiously 
offered  to  the  Most  High,  and  where  the  tenets  of  some 
particular  religious  sect  shall  be  sedulously  inculcated, 
as  if  life  and  death  depended  on  the  ability  to  pronounce 
some  denominational  Shibboleth  ;  not  to  become  an 
arena  for  the  hot  discussion  of  political  creeds  with  a 
view  to  preoccupy  with  preferences  and  prejudices  the 


64  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

minds  of   pupils,  deafening   their  young  ears  with  the 
everlasting  din  of  party  politics. 

Nor  yet  was  it  reared  as  a  princely  palace  to  Mam- 
mon, to  add  one  more  to  the  ten  thousand  superb 
Plutian  temples,  which,  for  selfish  ends,  private  enter- 
prise is  erecting  all  over  the  land  to  the  God  of  riches. 

And  yet  it  is  gravely  hinted  in  some  quarters  that  an 
American  citizen  cares  only  for  three  things — Religion, 
Politics,  Money — and  that  his  whole  soul  is  intent  on 
reaching  the  summit  of  this  inverted  climax.  It  is  inti- 
mated that  he  prizes  his  religion  mainly  for  the  liberty 
it  gives  him  to  go  into  politics  with  individual  earnest- 
ness, and  a  delightful  consciousness  of  his  inherent 
dignity  as  one  of  the  sovereign  people  ;  that  he  loves 
his  politics  only  as  they  open  to  him  one  chance  in  ten 
thousand  of  securing  some  lucrative  office  or  some 
pecuniary  reward  which  shall  enable  him  more  luxu- 
riously to  feast  his  greedy  eyes  on  gold,  or  lay  on  the 
altar  of  his  devout  worship  one  fresh  token  of  his  affec- 
tion for  his  heart's  dearest  idol  which  he  has  irreverent- 
ly denominated  the  "Almighty  Dollar." 

But  though  there  be  too  much  truth  in  this  severe 
insinuation,  we  rejoice  to  believe  it  is  not  wholly  true. 
Here  stands  a  noble  edifice  which  measurably  contra- 
dicts the  foul  aspersion — which  speaks  to  the  passing 
traveller,  and  which  will  continue  to  speak  to  genera- 
tions to  come,  the  delightful  fact,  that,  however  as 
Americans  we  may  in  general  regard  the  peculiarities 
of  our  respective  religious  sects,  however  we  may  culti- 
vate our  zeal  for  party  politics,  and  cherish  our  insatia- 
ble love  of  silver  and  of  gold,  there  are  among  us  men 
of  too  much  discernment,  of  too  much  shrewd  prophetic 
forecast,  not  to  know  that  if  we  exhaust  all  our  energies 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  6$ 

on  these  hobbies,  the  inheritance  we  shall  transmit  to 
our  children  will  be  poor  indeed.  And  it  is  delightful 
to  see  men  acting  under  this  salutary  conviction.  It  is 
delightful  to  see  them  at  times  laying  aside  their  denom- 
national  and  party  distinctions  for  the  general  good.  It 
is  delightful  to  see  them  casting  their  money  into  a 
common  treasury,  uniting  heart  and  hand  in  extending, 
as  you  now  do,  to  the  children  of  successive  generations 
a  cordial  welcome  to  the  blessings  of  wholesome  mental 
discipline  and  sound  learning. 

Thus  far,  on  this  point,  I  have  spoken  somewhat  neg- 
atively. I  have  said  the  purpose  for  which  this  house 
is  erected  is  not  specifically  for  religion,  politics,  nor 
pecuniary  gain.  But  it  is  designed  to  be  a  temple  of 
Education,  and  Education  in  this  use  of  the  term  con- 
templates the  mind  of  youth  in  a  two-fold  aspect. 

1st.  As  a  treasure-house  of  knowledge.  God  has 
endowed  every  rational  mind  with  a  capacity  for  knowl- 
edge, and  a  faculty  of  retaining  it.  In  the  aged  person, 
this  faculty,  strengthened  by  e.xercise,  often  attains  to  a 
capaciousness  that  is  truly  wonderful.  His  memory 
may  have  lost  something  of  its  retentive  power,  and  yet 
it  is  capacious  and  full.  The  old  revolutionary  hero  can 
draw  from  the  recollections  of  the  past  many  a  thrilling 
incident,  unwind  many  a  thread  of  history,  for  his  mem- 
ory is  as  full  of  'Mong  yarns"  as  a  cocoon  is  of  silken 
fibres.  The  new-born  intellect  of  the  child,  however,  is 
undeveloped.  In  him  the  capacity  of  memory  is  yet 
limited.  It  demands  expansion.  In  him  curiosity  is 
awake.  Whatever  arrests  his  attention  is  stored  in  his 
memory.  And  the  more  he  treasures  there  the  more 
does  he  strengthen  memory  and  increase  its  capacity. 

Now,  to    direct  the  curiosity  and  fix  the  attention  of 


66  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER   ACADEMY. 

youth  upon  those  facts  and  events  in  History,  those 
axioms  and  principles  in  Science  and  Philosophy,  which 
shall  hereafter  be  esteemed  acquisitions  of  no  small 
value,  but  which  on  the  contrary  shall  serve  to  guide  the 
active  powers  of  the  mind,  is  one  very  important  branch 
of  the  business  of  Education,  and  regarding  i^^ducation 
as  a  distinct  science  this  seems  to  be  one  of  its  funda- 
mental principles,  viz.,  to  preoccupy  the  mind  as  early  as 
possible  with  that  which  shall  be  of  the  greatest  service 
in  riper  years. 

It  is  recorded  of  Agesilaus,  king  of  Sparta,  that,  on 
being  asked  what  he  thought  most  proper  for  boys  to 
learn,  he  replied,  "  That  which  they  will  need  most 
when  they  come  to  be  men." 

In  accordance  with  this  just  remark  you  have  pro- 
vided here  a  commodious  house  where  the  elements  of 
science  and  literature  may  be  taught,  and  where  the 
foundation  may  be  begun  for  future  intelligence  and 
even  for  eminent  learning.  For,  alas  !  to  educate  the 
mind  as  a  store-house  and  to  do  it  thoroughly,  is  beyond 
the  power  of  any  institution  of  learning  in  the  land. 
This  must  be  the  work  of  a  lifetime,  if,  indeed,  human 
life  itself  be  not  a  period  too  short — a  work  which  is 
thorough  and  complete  only  when  the  mind  is  actually 
full  and  incapable  of  any  further  progress  or  expansion 
forever.  The  foundation  of  this  great  work,  however, 
as  I  have  already  said,  may  be  begun  here.  To  this 
purpose  then,  as  a  part  of  the  object  contemplated  in  its 
erection,  we  dedicate  this  beautiful  Academy.  Day 
after  day,  week  after  week,  term  after  term,  year  after 
year,  as  pupils  go  down  to  their  respective  homes  from 
this  seat  of  learning,  may  it  be  with  their  minds  ren- 
dered   more    capacious    as    store-houses,  and    not    only 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  6/ 

more  capacious,  but  more  abundantly  enriched  with  the 
treasures  of  wisdom  and  knowledge  than  when  they 
came  up  hither.  Here  may  the  principles  of  Astronomy 
of  Botany,  of  Chemistry,  of  Declamation,  of  Elocution, 
of  Geography,  and  so  on  through  the  whole  alphabet 
of  science  and  literature,  be  treasured  in  their  minds.  I 
say  the  principles  ;  for  these  are  very  few,  though  the 
facts  arranged  under  any  one  of  them  may  be  innumer- 
able. Take,  for  instance,  "  The  Rule  of  Three  ;"  the 
principle  is  simple,  easy  to  be  comprehended,  easy  to  be 
retained.  The  cases  that  might  occur  under  this  prin- 
ciple, however,  are  without  number.  We  ask  not  that 
the  mind  be  burdened  with  such  cases,  but  only  with 
the  principle,  which  with  ordinary  mental  discipline  can 
always  be  applied  as  occasion  demands.  To  fix  these 
general  principles  in  a  pupil's  mind  is,  I  repeat  it,  an 
important  part  of  the  business  of  Education. 

2d.  Education  further  contemplates  the  mind  of 
youth  as  an  agent  or  instrument. 

It  is  evident,  however  much  a  man  may  know,  his 
knowledge  can  be  of  no  essential  benefit  to  the  world  if 
he  has  no  faculty  of  communicating  what  he  knows. 
Hence  Education  contemplates  the  mind,  not  merely  as 
the  passive  recipient,  but  also  as  the  active  dispenser  of 
knowledge,  as  an  instrument,  or  rather  a  case  of  instru- 
ments, all  of  which  need  to  be  ground  and  set  to  the 
keenest  possible  edge,  that  the  owner  may  have  them 
always  at  hand,  all  sharp,  keen,  bright,  and  ready  for 
use  at  a  moment's  warning.  Take,  for  instance  the 
faculty  of  Reason.  It  needs  to  be  so  developed,  strength- 
ened and  trained  by  exercise,  as  to  be  ready  to  discuss 
and  argue  debatable  questions,  and  be  ever  able  to  de- 
duce just  inferences  from  given  premises.    Todiscipiine 


6S  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

the  faculty  of  Reason  into  such  perfection  of  skill  as  to 
enable  him  to  do  all  this  with  the  greatest  promptness, 
precision  and  ease  is  one  of  the  proudest  triumphs  of 
Education. 

Take  the  faculty  of  Imagination.  Its  province  is, 
out  of  ideas  previously  stored  in  the  mind,  to  form  such 
striking  combinations  as  never  before  existed  ;  such  as 
excite  wonder  and  admiration  in  the  poems  of  Byron, 
the  plans  of  Napoleon,  or  the  novels  of  Scott  ;  such  as 
you  discover  with  rare  delight  in  the  creations  of  the 
artist's  pencil,  or  in  the  musical  compositions  of  a 
Handel  or  a  Mozart.  The  teacher  may  not  know  which 
of  his  pupils  or  whether  any  of  them  will  gain  celebrity 
by  the  productions  of  his  imagination  ;  and  yet  the  cul- 
tivation of  this  faculty,  so  as  to  render  it  quick  and  skil- 
ful at  combinations,  and  ready  for  invention,  is  part  of 
the  business  of  Education.  And  so  it  is  with  regard  to 
all  the  active  intellectual  powers. 

I  need  not  stop  here  to  point  out  the  precise  benefits 
which  may  accrue  to  each  faculty  of  the  mind  by  edu- 
cation. But  I  must  say  this,  that  while  Education  aims 
to  store  the  mind  with  facts  and  principles,  it  also  aims 
so  to  discipline  its  powers  as  to  render  that  mind  a  fitter 
instrument  for  the  production  of  knowledge.  It  is  im- 
portant not  merely  that  a  pupil  acquire  knowledge,  but 
that  he  also  receive  such  mental  culture  as  shall  enable 
him  to  make  the  best  use  of  his  knowledge  and  secure 
the  greatest  amount  of  power  and  influence  for  good 
with  his  fellow  citizens.  Hence  he  must  learn  not  only 
what  in  literature  and  science  is  important  to  be  known, 
but  also  the  art  of  writing  and  speaking  according  to 
the  established  rules  of  Logic,  Rhetoric  and  Grammar, 


HISTORY   OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  69 

that  he  may  both  easily  and  impressively  communicate 
to  others  the  results  of  his  own  observations  or  re- 
flections. 

These  things  are  perfectly  obvious.  How  inestimable 
must  be  the  blessings   conferred  by  such  an    education. 

Second.  But  in  what  manner  or  by  what  means  is  it 
expected  that  these  blessings  are  to  be  secured  here  ? 

The  answer  to  this  inquiry  is  brief.  Vou  have  erected 
here  a  spacious,  elegant  temple,  which  we  now  conse- 
crate to  educational  purposes.  If  it  be  not  already  done 
you  will  doubtless,  sooner  or  later,  find  it  desirable  to 
furnish  this  Academy  with  some  convenient  school 
apparatus  for  illustrating  the  different  branches  of 
science  taught  here.  But  neither  this  beautiful  house, 
nor  any  amount  of  instrumental  furniture  will  of  itself 
educate  one  of  your  children,  if,  having  provided  these, 
you  keep  the  doors  locked  and  your  children  at  home. 
Nor  will  your  children  become  educated  by  going  to  an 
Academy,  however  splendid  the  building,  or  however 
richly  endowed,  unless  you  have  stationed  there,  to 
greet  them  when  they  come,  and  instruct  them  while 
they  remain,  one  who  has  not  only  drunk  deep  at  the 
fountains  of  knowledge  himself,  but  who  possesses  that 
happy  faculty  of  communicating  his  knowledge  which 
shall  both  interest  and  benefit  his  pupils.  Such  teachers 
it  is  not  always  an  easy  matter  to  procure.  But  when 
such  an  one  is  secured,  as  I  understand  is  the  case 
among  you,  remember,  I  pray  you,  that  even  lie  cannot 
labor  to  the  greatest  advantage  without  your  continual 
support  and  sympathy,  your  friendly  counsel  and  en- 
couragement. Nay,  in  the  same  breath  in  which  you 
ask  God  to  bless  your  beloved  children,  ask  him  to  bless 
also  your  Academy,  that  it   may  become   a   nursery  not 


70  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

of  education  alone,  but  of  piety  and  virtue  ;  and  plead 
especially  for  him  who  is  daily  making  his  mark  on  the 
minds  of  your  sons  and  daughters,  that  he  may  fnlfil  the 
high  responsibilities  of  his  office  as  *'a  workman  that 
needeth  not  to  be  ashamed." 

For  such  purposes  then,  to  be  secured  by  such  means 
was  this  house  erected.  To  such  purposes  we  now 
sacredly  dedicate  it  in  the  name  and  behalf  of  the 
Proprietors. 

Gentlemen  of  the  Trustees  :  You  have  been  chosen 
to  guard  the  interests  of  this  institution  and  to  secure 
this  edifice  so  far  as  in  you  lies,  for  the-  purposes  for 
which  it  was  built.  We  congratulate  you  that  Litera- 
ture and  Science,  having  long  enjoyed  here  a  temporary 
dwelling-place,  have  at  last  consented  to  be  installed  in 
this  new  temple,  under  your  guardianship,  and  to  make 
this  a  permanent  abode. 

And,  fellow-citizens,  as  friends  of  Education  and 
lovers  of  our  race,  from  this  elevated  standpoint,  we 
cannot  help  casting  our  eye  down  the  long  vista  of  the 
future  to  contemplate  the  blessings  which  will  flow 
from  this  humble  seat  of  learning  to  generations  yet 
unborn.  When  we  think  of  the  number  of  eminent 
men  and  distinguished  women  who  shall  hereafter  look 
back  and  point  with  mingled  pride  and  veneration  to 
this  consecrated  spot,  we  cannot  but  hail  this  as  a  proud 
day  for  Hanover.  It  is  not  among  the  least-pleasing 
circumstances  of  this  hour  to  learn  that  this  is  wholly 
a  popular  enterprise;  that  the  stock  of  this  house, 
divided  into  small  shares,  has,  for  the  most  part,  been 
taken  by  your  citizens,  that  the  thing  might  be  the  crea- 
tion of  the  people.  I  am  pleased  to  learn  that  a  liberal 
donation  of  one  thousand  dollars,  towards  the  erection 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  JJ I 

of  this  building,  has  been  cheerfully  made  by  one  of  the 
venerable  fathers  of  the  town  to  whom  God  has  given 
both  the  means  and  a  heart  for  this  service.  Nor  did 
it  afford  me  any  less  pleasure  to  learn  that  a  benevolent 
lady  among  you  has  also  made  a  generous  donation  to 
endow  what,  for  want  of  a  better  title,  I  may  denomi- 
nate a  sort  of  Belfry  Professorship,  in  the  department  of 
Punctuality ;  and  that  through  her  beneficence,  you 
have  been  enabled  already  to  secure  for  that  important 
Professorship  the  services  of  a  "  tonguey  fellow,"  of 
striking  and  persuasive  eloquence,  who  without  much 
knowledge  of  any  science  in  particular,  is  nevertheless 
thoroughly  versed  in  Bell-Letters. 

All  these  agreeable  circumstances  add  to  this  hour  a 
delightful  charm.  Once  more,  then,  before  we  separate, 
let  us  join  heart  and  voice  in  the  consecration  of  this 
beautiful  Edifice.  To  Science,  Literature,  Education, 
we  now  consecrate  these  halls,  these  seats,  these  desks, 
these  walls.  May  the  Lord  God  of  our  Fathers  smile 
on  this  humble  effort  of  their  children,  to  transmit  the 
blessings  of  knowledge  through  this  Academy  to  multi- 
tudes unborn. 

While  I  am  speaking  the  cry  for  educated  men  is 
waxing  louder  and  louder.  It  is  coming  up  from  the 
four  quarters  of  the  globe,  from  every  departm.ent  of 
human  industry.  A  few  years  ago  if  the  learned  pro- 
fessions, so  called,  were  supplied  with  men  of  thorough 
education,  it  was  enough.  Now  our  teachers,  our  public 
lecturers,  our  school  committees,  our  engineers,  our 
mechanics,  our  farmers,  are  calling  for,  nay,  loudly  de- 
manding, that  more  of  the  genial  light  of  science  be 
shed  on  their  respective  pursuits  and  callings.  And 
these  demands  must  be  met.     And  happy  is  that  people 


72  HISTORY     OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

who,  yearning  for  the  welfare  of  their  race,  and  admon- 
ished by  those  '' coming  events  "  which '' cast  their 
shadows  before,"  have  anticipated  the  increasing  de- 
mand for  the  general  diffusion  of  learning,  and  have 
stepped  forth  to  do  their  part  toward  supplying  the  de- 
mand, as  we  deem  it  no  flattery  to  say,  you  have  nobly 
done  yours. 

The  following  account  of  the  Dedicatory  Exercises 
taken  from  the  Hingham  Journal,  signed  D.,  was  with- 
out doubt  written  by  Rev.  Mr.  Dyer.* 

'•^  Messrs  Editors  :  I  herewith  enclose  you  a  copy  of 
the  Order  of  Exercises  at  the  Dedication  of  Hanover 
Academy.  This  new,  neat,  commodious,  and,  withal, 
beautiful,  building  was  dedicated  on  Tuesday  last  with 
appropriate  religious  services.  Notwithstanding  the 
storm,  the  hall,  which  is  judged  capable  of  seating  three 
hundred,  was  well  filled.  Many  ladies  were  present. 
Instead  of  a  voluntary,  as  the  storm  prevented  the 
bringing  in  of  an  instrument  for  that  purpose,  the 
Choir  [under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Benjamin  Erost] 
favored  us  with  an  Anthem  for  an  opening  exercise. 
Then  followed  an  Invocatory  Prayer,  by  Rev.  A.  G. 
Duncan  ;  Hymn  by  Miss  Lucy  S.  Delano  of  Scituate  ; 
Dedicatory  Address,  by  Rev.  E.  Porter  Dyer,  of  Hing- 
ham ;  Dedicatory  Prayer,  by  Rev.  Samuel  Cutler,  of 
Hanover ;  Hymn,  by  Rev.  E.  Porter  Dyer. 

A  very  interesting  letter  from    Rev.   Lucius   Alden, 

*Mr.  Dyer  was  born  in  So.  Abington  (Whitman)  in  1813.  Grad- 
uated at  Brown  University,  1833,  and  was  pastor  in  Hingham  some 
sixteen  years,  resigning  in  1864.  In  his  .last  years  he  supplied  the 
Congregational  church  at  Hanover  Corners  until  1881,  when  he 
was  laid  aside  by  paralysis  and  died  at  So.  Abington  the  next 
jear. 


HISTORY   OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  73 

formerly  a  pupil  at  Hanover  Academy — a  letter  running 
back  to  its  foundation,  and  glancing  at  its  history  for 
many  years,  speaking  of  men  who  had  gone  forth  from 
that  Academy  and  acquired  some  celebrity,  being 
read  by  the  Principal  of  the  Academy,  was  well 
received,  and  furnished  appropriate  topics  for  subse- 
quent remark.  Addresses  were  then  made  by  Rev. 
Messrs.  Walker  and  White  of  Abington,  Rev.  Mr.  Sla- 
son,  of  Hanover,  and  Mr.  M.  P.  McLauthlin,  the 
Principal.  A  Hymn,  by  Rev.  A.  G.  Duncan  was  then 
sung,  and  the  exercises  closed  with  Benediction  by  Rev. 
Mr.  Slason,  It  was  said  that  several  clergymen  from 
neighboring  towns  were  invited  who  were  not  present, 
probably  on  account  of  the  storm. 

It  is  now  about  half  a  century  since  the  Academy  in 
Hanover  was  founded,  and  we  congratulate  the  citizens 
of  that  town  that  this  long  cherished  institution  in  their 
midst  is  thus  furnished  with  a  new  building  at  a  cost  of 
some  three  thousand  dollars.  This  new  edifice  stands 
in  a  beautiful  young  grove  directly  in  rear  of  the  old 
building  ;  it  is  painted  white,  and  furnished  with  green 
blinds  and  a  tower,  and  makes  quite  an  imposing  appear- 
ance. The  bell,  weighing  four  hundred  pounds,  was 
the  gift  of  a  young  lady  in  Hanover.  —  Yours  re- 
spectfully." 

In  the  pamphlet  containing  the  Address,  the  Trustees 
— Rev.  Samuel  Cutler,  President — add  the  following  : 

The  occasion  of  the  dedication  of  the  new  Academy 
seems  to  bespeak  auspicious  omens  in  regard  to  the 
future  prosperity  of  the  Institution,  as  under  the  well- 
devised  and  energetic  action  of  Samuel  Salmond,  Esq., 
seconded  by  the  cordial  unanimity  of  many  others  inter- 


74  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

estecl,  there  has  been  effected  a  new  organization  of  the 
Academy,  by  the  adoption  of  a  regular  Constitution  and 
the  establishment  of  an  elective  Board  of  Trustees,  by 
which  a  permanent  direction  might  be  given  to  the 
school,  independent  of  sectarian  prejudices,  yet  by  no 
means  void  of  a  strong  and  healthful  moral  government. 

The  Trustees  and  Proprietors  of  the  Institution  also 
fondly  anticipate  that,  through  a  continued,  as  far  as 
may  be,  and  effective  Principal  as  the  chief  Instructor, 
by  which  the  school  may  be  devoid  of  an  oscillating 
character,  the  Institution  may  enjoy  the  ready  confi- 
dence of  the  public  and  attain  a  worthy  eminence.  The 
new  and  elegant  Academy,  together  with  its  ample 
grounds,  is  pleasantly  situated  on  rather  a  commanding 
site,  being  retired  some  distance  from  the  street.  It  is 
commodiously  constructed,  in  accordance  with  the  mod- 
ern style The  Fall  Term    will    commence 

about  the  last  of  September  and  continue  eleven  weeks. 
Signed  by  the  Trustees. 

Mr.  McLauthlin  continued  as  the  first  teacher  in  the 
new  Academy  until  Feb.,  1854.  He  thinks  the  largest 
number  that  attended  any  one  term  was  sixty.  Accord- 
ing to  the  Records,  he  was  granted,  in  Feb.  9,  1853,  for 
reasons  not  stated,  "leave  of  absence  for  three  months 
—  he  retaining  his  position  as  Principal  of  the  school 
and  supplying  Mr.  Frederic  O.  Barstow  to  take  his 
place  during  his  absence."  On  the  occasion  of  his  re- 
signing the  Principalship,  the  Trustees  express  their 
sense  of  the  importance  of  his  labors  as  a  teacher,  es- 
pecially, perhaps,  as  connected  with  the  building  of  the 
new  Academy,  in  these  words  :  "Resolved,  That  the 
Trustees  of  the  Hanover  Academy  hereby  accept  the 
resignation  of  Mr.  M.  P.  McLauthlin,  and  tender  to  him 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  75 

their  thanks  for  his  zeal,  energy  and  fidelity  as  Principal 
of  the  Academy,  and  express  their  desires  for  his  future 
usefulness  and  happiness." 

There  is  no  full  list  of  Mr.  McLauthlin's  scholars. 
Many  of  Mr.  Holmes'  pupils,  as  those  of  Messrs.  Hitch- 
cock and  Wolcott,  doubtless  continued  to  study  under 
this  teacher.  The  following  names  have  not,  I  think, 
been  mentioned  before,  and  perhaps  most  of  these  were 
new  scholars.  I  trust  no  one  will  look  for  perfection  in 
these  partly  conjectural  lists  which  follow,  or  blame  me 
for  any  want  of  accuracy.  I  should  the  rather  be 
blamed  for  attempting  the  impossible. 

The  names  below  which  are  asterisked  will  reappear 
in  Mr.  Conant's  catalogue.  Perhaps  some  of  them 
should  have  made  their  first  appearance  in  his  list 
rather  than  here. 

Sidney  Barstow,*  William  Carver  Bates,*  Elmina 
Curtis,  Sarah  Collamore,  Theodore  Dyer,  Jedediah 
Dwelley,  Harriet  L.  Garratt,*  Cyrus  C.  Holmes,* 
Sophia  B.  Loring,  John  E.  Sylvester,  Loammi  B.  Syl- 
vester, Susanna  F.  Sylvester,  Moses  Bass  Stuith,*  Al- 
phonso  L.  Sturtevant,  Edward  P.  Stetson,  Mary  A. 
Stetson,  Benjamin  Barstow  Torrey,*  Herbert  Torrey* 
Zephaniah  Talbot,  Ebenezer  C.  Waterman.* 

From  a  circular  sent  out  some  years  since  to  the  "Class 
of  1852,"  by  Mr.  L.  Vernon  Briggs,  and  from  the  replies 
thereto,  I  should  infer  that  some  of  the  following  mainly 
new  names  might  also  belong  here  : 

Melzar  C.  Bailey,*  Charles  B.  Briggs,*  Ara  Brooks, 
Eliza  M.  Billings,*  George  C.  Briggs,"^  John  Corthell, 
Mary  W.  Curtis,  Mary  A.  Church,  Arabella  Collamore, 
Caroline  D.  Collamore,  Mary  B.  Church,*  Sarah  Colla- 
more,  Priscilla  Ellis,  Henry  Hunt,  Andrew  Howland, 


76 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 


Franklin  Jacobs,  Caleb  B.  Josselyn,  William  C.  Litch- 
field, Clara  H.  Mann,  Susan  M.  Magoun,*  John  C. 
Nash,*  George  B.  Oldham,  Allen  Phillips,  Ruth  C. 
Pratt,  Cerena  Pocorney,  Joseph  C.  Stockbridge,  Sarah 
J.  Stetson,  Cordelia  Sherman,  Frances  Turner,  Joanna 
Taylor,  Lucy  Vinal,  Kilborn  Whitman,  Edward  Whit- 
man, Oren  T.  Whiting,  Thomas  Whiting,  Cynthia 
Whiting,  Tryphena  Whiting,  Ellen  A.  Wood.* 


GEORGE    CONANT. 

Mr.  George  Coxaxt,  Principal,  and  Mrs.  Mary  Anne 
Friend  Conaxt,  Assistant  Teacher,  (1S54-55),  began 
their  first  term  March  13,  1854,  with  42  scholars.  Pre- 
vious to  his  coning  here  he  had  been  teaching  for  two 
years  in  Topsfield  of  this  State.  In  the  announcement 
for  the  Fall  Term  we  learn  that  in  the  ladies'  depart- 
ment instruction  by  the  Preceptress  was  given  not  only 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  7/ 

in  music  on  the  Organ  and  Piano  Forte,  but  also  in  Duo- 
Chromatic  or  two  Crayon  drawing,  specimens  of  which 
(worth  from  five  to  a  hundred  dollars)  could  be  seen  at 
the  Academy,  resembling  the  finest  steel  engraving  ; 
Painting  in  water  colors  ;  wax  flowers  and  fruit  ;  worst- 
ed flowers  and  embroidery ;  and  ornamental  leather 
frames,  in  imitation  of  carved  walnut.  We  also  learn 
that  a  ''Young  Men's  and  Young  Ladies'  Literary  So- 
ciety for  the  purpose  of  Debate  etc.,  is  connected  with 
the  school,  affording  an  excellent  opportunity  for  self- 
improvement.  A  Library  and  an  apparatus  belong  to  the 
Society  and  School."  This  "Philomathean"  Society 
and  Library  were  founded  in  the  last  part  of  Mr.  Mc- 
Lauthlin's  administration,  (the  Library  in  Oct.,  1853), 
and  the  Catalogue  of  books,  which  I  have  seen,  num- 
bers nearly  three  hundred.  Many  of  these  books  were 
purchased,  and  many  were  donated  by  students  and  the 
teachers  and  by  out-siders,  of  whom  Mr.  Salmond  was 
by  far  the  largest  giver.  The  book  which  heads  the 
list  and  marked  No.  i,  was  Drake's  Indian  Chiefs,  pre- 
sented by  William  Carver  Bates,  a  student  at  that  time. 
The  Library  Book  not  only  gives  the  names  of  the 
Books  but  also,  from  the  year  1856,  the  names  of  the 
scholars  or  teachers  who  took  them  out,  though  with 
serious  breaks,  even  as  far  down  as  the  year  1865. 
This  list  shows  a  large  number  of  names  of  whom  no 
literary  Listitution  need  be  ashamed.  In  our  Academy 
Archives  is  preserved  one  green,  faded,  water-stained 
ribbon  imprinted  in  large  letters  ;  Philomathean  Soci- 
ety.* 

*01d  Philomathea,  the  scene  of  debate — miniature  house  of  Con- 
gress, save  the  Investigating  Committee — many  a  nightwe  decided 
there  the  destinv  of  nations,  and   no  nation   suftered   at  our  hands, 


78  HISTORY   OF  HANOVER  ACADEMY. 

A  Lyceum  Club,  which  was  formed  in  the  village 
when  Mr.  McLauthlin  was  teacher,  seems  to  have  been 
very  flourishing  under  Mr.  Conant's  administration  ; 
and  a  Trustee's  vote  passed  Oct.,  1854,  allows  them  to 
have  the  ''  use  of  the  Academy  Hall  and  fixtures  for 
twelve  evenings  at  .75  per  evening  "  The  course  of 
Lectures  duiing  the  Winter,  the  admittance  fee  to 
which  was  only  ten  cents,  was  largely  attended,  and 
among  the  list  of  speakers  were  Rev.  John  Pierpont, 
Judge  Thomas  Russell,  Edwin  P.  Whipple,  George  S. 
Boutwell  and  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  Such  distin- 
guished Lecturers  as  these  were  paid  at  the  rate  of 
from  five  to  eight  dollars  apiece  with  their  expenses, 
and  they  were  obliged  to  ride  in  a  cold  stage-coach  from 
Abington  and  return.  To  reach  the  first  morning  train 
to  Boston  they  had  to  partake  of  breakfast  before  day- 
light. Now  our  lecturers  can  ride  in  palace  or  electric 
cars  and  get  their  one  or  two  hundred  dollars  per  lecture. 
It  would  be  interesting  could  some  one  write  the  history 
of  this  club.  I  have  been  told  that  Rev.  Dr.  Ezra 
Gannett,  Hon,  Josiah  Quincy,  and  others  alike  distin- 
guished, lectured  here  in  the  previous  Winter. 

Under  Mr.  Conant's  administration,  in  1854  and 
1855,  large  additions  were  made  to  the  Philosophical 
apparatus  of  the  Academy,  amounting  in  value  to  ;^222. 
Of  this  sum  Mr.  Salmond  paid  $100,  Messrs.  Robert 
Sylvester,  George  Curtis,  and  John  Gushing  paid  ^10 
each,  Michael  Sylvester  and  Elijah  Barstow,  $S  each,  a 
lect'jre  by  Mr.  Conant  netted  $6.60.  The  proceeds  of 
an  Exhibition,  held  Nov.  27-28,  1854,  were  $63.36  ;  and 

though  proud  Albion's  Qtieen  had  good  cause  to  protest  against 
the  cruel  murder  of  the  King's  English.— C  C  Holmes,  Newberne. 
N.  C,  Nov.  28,  1>7(;. 


HISTORY  OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  79 

the  balance,  twelve  dollars,  was  made  up  by  Mr. 
Salmond. 

The  admission  fee  to  the  above  ''  Exhibition  "  was 
only  ten  cents,  and  the  Academy  Hall  was  crowded  and 
jammed  each  evening.  On  the  second  evening,  as  Mr. 
Conant  writes  me, ''the  boys  and  girls  outdid  them- 
selves. They  were  encored  repeatedly,  and  kept  the 
sweating  and  eager  listeners  in  their  seats  and  on  their 
feet  till  about  midnight."  The  exercises  consisted 
mainly  in  the  speaking  of  pieces  and  dialogues,  and  in 
singing.  Of  course  the  then  famous  '' Box  and  Cox" 
was  vividly  acted  out  on  the  stage.  One  dialogue, 
entitled,  "The  Nervous  Man  and  the  Man  of  Nerve," 
was  very  lengthy,  and  embraced  nearly  all  the  school  in 
its  cast  of  characters.  "The  names  of  the  'stars'  and 
their  parts,"  says  Mr.  Conant,  "would  be  interesting 
reading.  The  two  '  Billy  '  Bateses,  the  Torreys,  Wilder, 
Holmes,  Waterman,  Barstow,  Garratt,  Woods,  Stetson, 
Hatch,  Josselyn,  Ramsdell,  h^lls,  Salmond,  Nash, 
Magoun,  Wright,  figured  conspicuously,  if  my  memory 
serves  me."  The  singing  of  the  quartette,  Mr.  Conant, 
B.  B.  Torrey,  Eliza  Ann  Josselyn,  and  Elizabeth  B. 
Sylvester,  is  spoken  of  even  to  this  day  as  being  remark- 
ably fine.* 

The  above-mention  of  the  Barstows  reminds  me  of  a 
brief  poetical  composition  which  Albert  Barstow,  one  of 
our  brightest  boys  but  early  called  from  earth,  got  off 
on  one  occasion  — 

"  Composition  writing  is  very  tough, 
I  have  written  two  lines  and  that's  enough." 


*Miss  Sylvester  subsequently  married  Mr.  Israel  H.  Macomber, 
of  Marshfield,  and  Miss  Josselyn  became  the  wife  of  Judge  John  H. 
Boult,  an  Amherst  graduate,  and  now  resides  in  Oakland,  Cal. 


80  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

But  Mr.  Conant,  as  I  have  heard,  took  a  different 
view  of  the  matter. 

The  Records  state  that  on  Aug.  2,  1855,  Mr.  Conant, 
who  was  suffering  from  an  attack  of  sickness,  was  given 
leave  to  close  the  present  term  at  the  expiration  of  nine 
weeks  by  refunding  the  due  proportion  to  scholars  that 
have  paid  for  the  full  term.  Mr.  C,  on  deciding  to 
leave  Hanover,  procured  a  teacher  without  the  knowl- 
edge of  the  Trustees,  for  the  last  two  weeks  of  the  term, 
whereupon  they  ''deemed  it  advisable  that  the  term 
close  at  that  time." 

On  leaving  Hanover  he  took  charge  of  a  new  Acad- 
emy in  central  Ohio,  where  he  speedily  recovered  from 
his  Hanover  pleurisy.  He  afterwards  taught  in  Ken- 
osha, Wis.,  in  Aurora,  N.  Y.,  in  Coshocton,  O.,  in 
Genesee  County,  N.  Y.,  and  in  Plainfield,  O.  In  many 
places  he  also  served  as  Superintendent  of  Schools.  His 
term  of  teaching  service  began  in  1843  and  ended  in  1892. 
Since  the  latter  date  he  has  been  largely  engaged  in 
pedestrianism,  canyon  visiting,  mountain  climbing,  etc., 
and  now  feels  himself  "  to  be  70  years  young."  His 
present  residence  is  Pasadena,  Cal.  His  wife  died  very 
suddenly  of  heart  disease  in  New  York  State  in  1883. 
For  29  years  she  had  been  his  most  efficient  helper  in 
schools. 

Under  Mr.  Conant's  administration  was  issued  the 
first  Catalogue  of  Academy  students  which  has  come  to 
my  knowledge.  The  names  are  given  alphabetically 
and  in  full,  with  places  of  residence  annexed,  and  the 
sexes  have  separate  columns.  It  contains  many  names 
which  we  have  already  met  with,  but  I  have  thought  it 
best  to  print  it  entire. 

Melzar     Cushing    Bailey,    Francis    Bemis,     William 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER  ACADEMY.  8 1 

Carver  Bates,  William  Henry  Bates,  George  Harvey 
Bates,  Albert  Barstow,  Henry  Briggs  Barstow,  Sidney 
Barstow,  Haviland  Barstow,  Henry  Payson  Briggs, 
George  C.  Briggs,  Charles  B.  Briggs,  Leander  Cham- 
berlain, Samuel  Joseph  May  Gushing,  Roswell  Dear- 
born Gushing,  Nathaniel  Gushing,  Edwin  Josselyn 
Chandler,  Charles  Henry  Eells,  Judson  Ewell,  Gyrus 
Collamore  Holmes,  Euther  Wright  Holmes,  George 
Stephen  Josselyn,  Joseph  Eobes  Knapp,  Charles  Albert 
Kimball,  George  Allen  Litchfield,  Edwin  Richard  Litch- 
field, John  Gushing  Nash,  Charles  Blanchard  Phillips, 
Henry  Pratt,  Levi  Ramsdell,  William  Alfred  Rogers, 
Moses  Bass  Smith  Ebenezer  Simmons,  Daniel  Kimball 
Stetson,  Edward  Gray  Stetson,  George  Washington 
Sturtevant,  L.  Curtis  Sylvester,  Jethro  Swett,  Benjamin 
Barstow  Torrey,  Herbert  Torrey,  Robert  Samuel  Tal- 
bot. Henry  Tirrell,  Ebenezer  Copeland  Waterman, 
Henry  Whitman,  Peter  Salmond  Whitman,  Joseph 
Eells  Wilder,  Nathaniel  W'alter  Winslow,  Henry  Alex- 
ander Wood,  William  W.  Weyer. 

Helen  Pauline  Barker,  Lucy  Abby  l^arstow,  Grace 
Foster  l^arstow,  Mary  Elizabeth  l^arstow,  Caroline 
Louisa  Barry,  l^^lizabeth  F.  Billings,  Mary  Bradbury 
Church,  Susan  E.  Cobb,  Mary  Webb  Damon,  Ellen 
Curtis  Gardner,  Harriet  Lucy  Garratt,  Lavina  Allen 
Hatch,  Margaret  P.  Ives,  Elizabeth  B.  Jones,  Eliza  Ann 
Josselyn,  Priscilla  Josselyn,  Ophelia  Litchfield,  Martha 
Augusta  Litchfield,  Susan  Maria  Magoun,  Eliza  Smith 
Salmond,  Marianna  Stetson,  Mary  Tolman  Stetson, 
Betsie  Homer  Stetson,  Elizabeth  Belcher  Sylvester, 
Sarah  Emily  Sylvester,  Martha  Reed  Sylvester,  Helen 
M.  Sylvester,  Amelia  Frances  Stockbridge,  Maria  War- 
ren   Wright,   Ellen    Allston    Wood.     Of  these,   twelve 


§2  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER  ACADEMY. 

came  from  Pembroke,  thirteen  from  S.  Scituate,  forty- 
three  belonged  in  Hanover,  and  the  rest  were  from 
other  places. 

A  Mr.  Barrett,  who  does  not  seem  to  have  been  fortu- 
nate enough  to  leave  even  the  initials  of  his  given  name 
behind  him,  was  next  chosen  Principal.  He  began 
school  Sept.  5,  1855  with  only  twenty  scholars,  and  after 
keeping  two  days,  asked  the  privilege  to  stand  as  a 
candidate  for  teacher  of  a  high  school  in  a  distant  place. 
The  Trustees  not  granting  his  request,  he  somewhat 
abruptly  took  his  leave.  The  scholars  on  assembling  at 
the  school  one  morning  as  usual,  found  themselves  un- 
expectedly without  a  teacher. 

It  was  thought  best  in  this  crisis  that  the  breath  of 
life  should,  if  possible,  be  continued  in  the  school,  and 
so  an  individual  from  So.  Scituate  was  urged  to  make 
the  effort.  P^ortunately  for  the  institution,  after  a  few 
days  of  that  gentleman's  imperfect  service,  Mr.  F.  O. 
Barstow  was  secured  as  Principal,  and  he  entered  on  his 
duties  the  thirteenth  of  September. 

Frederick  Olney  Barstow,  ( 1855-6), a  native  of  Han- 
over, was  born  June  6.  1830,  and  graduated  at  Brown  Un- 
iversity in  1852.  After  supplying  Mr.  McLauthlin's  place 
in  the  spring  of  1853  he  took  a  voyage  to  England  and 
back,  then  to  Canton,  China,  and  subsequently  to 
France  via  New  Orleans.  Afterward  he  took  the  pre- 
ceptorship  of  the  Academy  as  previously  narrated  and 
resigned  the  same  in  July,  1856.  In  1857  ^"<^^  1^5^  he 
took  a  course  of  lectures  in  medicine  and  surgery  in 
Albany,  N.  Y.,  and  in  Boston.  He  married  on  June 
28,  1858,  an  Academy  girl,  Mary  Elizabeth  Torrey,  who 
died  Jan.  12,1897.     He  has  three  daughters  living,    all 


HISTORY    OF   HANOVER    ACADEMY 


83 


married,  one  of  whom,  Mrs.  R.  P.  West,  resides  in  Seat- 
tle, Wash.  His  first  settlement  as  a  physician  was 
at  Swampscott,  1858-61,  then  at  San  Andreas,  Cala- 
veras Co.,  Cal.,  where  he  was  elected  Principal  of  the 
grammar  school  and  Superintendent  of  the  schools  of 
the  County.  Ordained  as  a  minister  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church,  July  22,  1866,  he  took  charge  of  a 
church  at  Sonora  and  of  St.  Andrews    Mission    in    San 


FREDERICK    OLNEY    BARSTOW. 

Francisco.  In  1869  he  returned  to  Massachusetts  and 
had  charge  of  Trinity  Church,  Weymouth,  Nov.,  1869, 
May  1870.  He  was  then  appointed  missionary  to  La 
Messilla,  New  Mexico,  and  established  the  first  mission 
and  school  of  the  P.  E.  Church  in  that  territory.  In 
1876--79  he  served  as  assistant  minister  in  Grace  Church, 
San  P>ancisco,  and  in  1880  became  rector  of  St.  Peter's 


84  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER   ACADEMY. 

Church.  Since  1881  he  has  not  had  the  charge  of  any 
Church,  but  calls  himself  a  "  Teacher  and  Practitioner 
of  Divine  Science."  His  present  residence  is  Fruitvale, 
Cal.  He  was  a  born  artist,  and  the  ''little  cabin," 
12x18  feet,  where  he  is  now  living  as  he  professes  ^'  a 
kind  of  hermit  life,"  is  well  supplied,  as  I  should  judge 
from  a  picture,  with  artist's  materials.  The  above  por- 
trait was  taken  in  said  cabin  by  himself,  presumably 
with  the  aid  of  a  string. 

In  a  circular  addressed  by  L.  Vernon  Briggs  to 
''classes  1854 — 56"  (Messrs.  Conant  and  Barstow,  Prin- 
cipals), I  find  the  following  new  names.  Possibly  some 
of  these  names  should  appear  elsewhere  : 

Abbie  Briggs,  Hannah  E.  Ikooks,  Charles  W.  Bar- 
stow,  Henry  H.  Collamore,  Eugene  H.  Clapj^,  Frank  A. 
Clapp,  Fred.  W.  Clapp,  Robert  S.  Church,  Edward 
Church,  Hannah  Davenport,  Hannah  B.  Hart,  Nathaniel 
Henshaw,  John  Magoun,  Calvin  T.  Phillips,  Charles  F. 
Phillips,  Morrill  A.  Phillips,  Josiah  Stoddard,  George  F. 
Stetson,  Lydia  Sylvester,  Timothy  Studley,  W.  W. 
Weyer. 

Charles  Andrew  Reed  (i856-'6o),  son  of  Samuel 
and  Caroline  (Nash)  Reed,  was  born  in  Weymouth  June 
18,  1836,  and  was  graduated  from  Amherst  College  in 
1856.  He  began  his  services  as  Preceptor  of  the  Acad- 
emy Sept.  8,  1856,  and  continued  them  for  fourteen 
terms  until  the  first  part  of  i860,  having  had  under  his 
charge  143  different  pupils.  He  studied  law  with  Ellis 
Ames,  Esq.,  of  Canton,  who  was  eminent  both  as  a  law- 
yer and  as  a  historian,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
•  Boston,  July  18,  1861.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  a 
lawyer  of  distinction  in  Taunton,  a  mayor  of  that  city,  a 
member  of   the  City  Council,  and  of  the  Mass.  Legisla- 


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85 


tare  (1881),  and  city  solicitor  since  1880.  In  June  27, 
1 87 1,  he  was  married  to  Welthea  N.  Dean  of  Taunton, 
and  has  two  children. 

Mr.  Reed,  to  use  the  words  of  one  of  his  pupils,  whom 
we  have  before  quoted  (G.  F.  S.),  "was  a  most  capable, 
faithful  and  successful  teacher,"  and  his  service  at  the 
Academy  seems  to  have  been  acceptable  and  successful 
to  an  unusual  degree.  It  is  therefore  not  strange  that 
he  says  "no  portion   of    my  earlier   years  is  so  pleasant 


CHARLES    ANDREW    REED. 

as  the  years  1856-59,  which  I  spent  in  Hanover." 

Perhaps  the  most  important  event  of  his  administra- 
tion was  the  formation  of  the  Alumni  Association,  with 
its  several  annual  reunions  and  public  celebrations, 
which  were  held  about  the  time  of  Thanksgiving.  The 
first  call  on  the  Alumni  to  hold  a  reunion  meeting;  made 


S6  HISTORY   OF  HANOVER  ACADEMY. 

by  the  Committee  on  behalf  of  the  Alumni  Association 
thus  reads  : 

The  Committee  would  respectfully  request  your  pres- 
ence at  the  approaching  literary  festival,  and  most 
cordially  welcome  you  back  to  the  scenes  and  associa- 
tions of  Academy  days.  The  oration  by  J.  E.  Corlew, 
M.  D.,  will  be  delivered  Nov.  26,  1858,  at  the  Episcopal 
Church  in  the  afternoon  of  the  day  assigned  for  these 
exercises. 

The  Committee  are  assured  that  to  you,  as  an  old 
member  of  the  Academy,  the  object  of  this  Association 
—  to  revive  the  various  associations  of  former  days  — - 
to  establish  a  bond  of  friendship  between  all  those  who 
have  resorted  thither  for  instruetion  — -  and  to  render 
this  our  educational  institution  worthy  of  your  esteem 
and  confidence— -  will  meet  a  most  hearty  reception. 
Most  respectfully  yours, 

Chas.  A.  Reed, 
L.  C.  Waterman, 

D.  B.  Eord, 
Samuel  Tolman,  Jr., 

E.  O.  Sylvester, 
T.  B.  Waterman, 

Committee. 

Dr.  Corlew's  Address,  methinks,  must  be  well-re- 
membered by  some  to  this  day.  In  the  course  of  his 
remarks  he  gave  such  a  vivid  and  realistic  description 
of  some  of  his  schoolmates,  even  of  their  characters  and 
conduct,  looks  and  habits,  that  many  of  them,  and 
especially  of  the  young  ladies,  were  greatly  nettled  and 
began  to  dread  what  the  next  word  might  be. 

But  the  whole  of  the  afore-mentioned  day  was  used 
for  public  celebration,  and  in  the  forenoon  an  Address 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  8/ 

was  deliv^ered  in  the  Academy  Hall  before  the  ''Philo- 
mathean  Society"  by  William  Carver  Bates,  Esq.,  a 
native  of  Hanover  and  an  Alumnus  who  has  ever  greatly 
interested  himself  in  the  literary  and  financial  interests 
of  the  Academy.  The  theme  of  his  discourse  was  "  The 
Outer  and  the  Inner  Life,"  and  this,  as  he  assures  me, 
was  the  first  public  address  of  his  life.  Other  public 
addresses  of  his  must  be  remembered  by  many  of  our 
readers,  especially  the  one  delivered  in  1877  on  .the 
150th  anniversary  of  the  incorporation  of  the  town,  as 
also  another  delivered  the  next  year  at  the  dedication  of 
the  Soldiers'  Monument.* 

Such  was  the  beginning  of  our  public  reunion  cele- 
brations, reminding  us,  by  our  going  into  the  Church 
and  our  marching  back  and  forth  in  procession,  very 
strongly  of  our  college  commencements.  The  brass 
band,  indeed,  was  wanting,  and  the  scholastic  cap  and 
toga,  but  were  not  tliese  within  the  limit  of  future  possi- 
bilities ? 

In  the  following  year,  1859,  the  Philomathean  Society 
on  the  forenoon  of  Nov.  25th  again  held  their  meeting 
and  listened  to  an  address  by  Cyrus  Collamore  Holmes, 
Esq.  He  was  son  of  Rev.  Cyrus  Holmes,  and  was  also 
one  of  our  patriot  boys  who  enlisted  and  died  in  the  war 
for  the  preservation  of  the  Union. 

In  the  afternoon  of  the  same  day  the  Alumni  Asso- 

*  The  doings  of  the  latter  occasion  have  been  fitly  chronicled  in 
the  Pamphlet  of  Dr.  William  Henry  Brooks,  but  no  proper  historic 
record  has  been  made  of  the  preceding  anniversary,  which  for  the 
town  was  a  very  note-worthy  affair.  Its  great  procession,  one  and 
a  half  miles  long,  its  great  assemblage  of  between  4000  and  5000 
people,  its  great  oration  by  Gov.  Long,  its  great  dinner,  and  all 
its  other  great  things  should  no  longer  be  left  unrecorded  by  the 
historian. 


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HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 


ciation  were  favored  with  an  address  delivered  in  the 
Episcopal  Church  by  the  Principal  of  the  Academy, 
Charles  A.  Reed,  A.  M.,  who  took  the  place  of  Rev. 
Marcus  Ames  who  had  been  selected  as  orator  of  the 
day.     And  in  the  evening  there  was  a  social  gathering 

of  the  members  of  the 
Association  in  the  Acad- 
emy Hall,  a  festival,  as  it 
was  hoped  to  be,  *'  of 
most  happy  memory." 

Our  Alumni  Poetess, 
Mrs.  Augusta  (Briggs) 
Cheney  of  Worcester 
has  kindly  sent  me  the 
first  of  her  many  Alumni 
Poems,  and  I  insert  it 
here  (accompanied  with 
her  recently  taken  por- 
trait) as  being  per- 
haps the  one  which 
was    delivered    on    this 

MRS.  CHENEY.  OCCasioU. 

To  dear  old  friends  in  front,  and  flank,  and  rear, 

On  all,  and  every  side,  I  make  my  bow. 
A  half  fledged  poet  feels  exceeding  queer 

As  all  who've  had  experience  v  ill  allow. 
So  I  stand  here,  with  mingled  hope,  and  fear, 

Dreading  the  sentence  you  may  chance  bestow, 
Like  one,  who  waits  the  verdict  of  his  life. 
Or  asks  some  doubtful  maid,  to  be  his  wife. 

Perhaps  some  critic,  with  his  wondrous  sight. 

With  line,  and  square,  and  microscopic  eye. 
May  weigh  each  line,  and  verse  that  I  may  write. 

And  errors  in  my  rhyme  or  rhythm  may  descry. 
No  matter!  I'll  admit  their  plebian  parentage, 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER  ACADEMY 

And  all  his  irritating  powers  defv  ; 
And  still  be  calm,  though  no  applause  is  shown, 
And  as  th.eir  merits,  claim  their  faults  mv  own. 


And  while  I  make  this  very  frank  confession 
And  own  my  lines  are  far  from  errors  free, 

'Tis  only  in  the  coupling  or  expression 

The  writer's  heart  will  bear  close  scrutiny, 

And  poetry  not  being  my  profession. 

More  freely  I  dare  hope  your  sympathy  ; 

Remember,  I'd  no  art  to  beautify, 

But  give  you  this,  ere  yet  the  ink  is  dry. 

How  many  well-remembered  faces  meet  my  view, 
Where  e'er  I  turn  I  meet  familiar  eyes. 

And  here  tonight,  though  memory  should  be  true. 
In  seeing  you  I  quite  forget  how  fast  time  flies; 

Scenes  long  forgotten,  I  in'thought  renew. 

My  schoolgirl  days  in  sweet  remembf-ance  rise, 

And  it  seems  but  a  day,  since  I  with  book  in  hand, 

Made  my  debut  upon  this  very  stand. 

No.  not  the  samel  for  modern  enterprise 
Has  reared  this  building  on  the  ancient  site. 

And  though  I  own,  to  an  impartial  eye. 
This  seems  more  goodly  in  its  coat  of  white; 

Yet  deep  within  my  heart,  still  lingering  lies, 
A  wish,  I  would  not  utter  save  to  friends  tonight. 

That  in  its  place  I  might  see  standing  here, 

The  ancient  building,  brown,  and  square,  and  queer. 

Those  schoolgirl  dreams  so  dear  to  many  a  heart 
Of  wealth  and  pleasure,  love  and  married  state. 

When  each  fair  maid,  seemed  anxious  first  to  part 
The  golden  clouds,  which  hid  her  future  fate. 

But  still  with  maiden  modesty  would  start 
If  one  perchance,  not  awed  by  frown  sedate, 

Foretelling  sure  their  destined  place  in  life, 

Proclaimed  each  blushing  maid,  as  some  mail's  ivtfe. 


go  HISTORY  OF  HANOVER  ACADEMY. 

But  time,  and  change,  have  wrought  their  work  upon 
Those  merry  groups,  and  all  their  dreams  are  flown, 

And  youth's  short  days  and  fancies  free  are  gone, 

And  much  we  dreamed  of  then,  we  since  have  sadly  known  ; 

Some  few  remain  to  walk  life's  paths  alone. 
We  pity  them  far  more  than  those  who  own 

That  they  have  halved  their  pains 

And  doubled  joys,  by  matrimonial  chains. 

Marriage,  and  change,  and  death,  have  changed  our  youthful  band 
And  many  cherished  forms  we  miss  within  these  walls. 

Many  loved  tones,  and  kindly  grasp  of  hands, 
Sad  memory  to  our  mind  recalls, 

And  fate,  refuses  to  unite  the  broken  strands, 
Which  Time  has  in  our  chain  of  life  let  fall ; 

But  sadness  ever  mingles  in  our  cup  of  joy , 

And  purest  metals,  mixed  with  base  alloy. 

Yet  still  though  not  unmindful  of  the  sober  past 

O'er  what  has  been,  why  should  we  sit  and  croon  ? 
Or  retrospective  views  forever  cast? 

Unmindful  of  the  high,  and  priceless  boon, 
Of  friends,  and  friendship,  which  longyears  may  last. 

No  !  let  us  rather  hope  for  happiness  at  future  day, 

Than  sigh  for  buried  hopes  long  passed  away. 

Our  schoolgirl  days  may  nevermore  return. 

No  more  we  dream,  as  once  in  days  gone  by. 
Yet  still  within  our  hearts,  shalTever  burn 

The  love  enkindled  by  their  memory. 
And  every  heart  shall  be  a  sacred  urn, 

Sealed  with  a  tear,  hidden  from  outward  eye. 
And  friendship  shall  more  sacred  grow,  as  year  by  year 
Our  numbers  weaken  at  this  gathering  here. 

Just  a  week  prior  to  this  celebration,  the  Fall  Exhibi- 
tion of  the  Academy  was  held  in  the  hall  in  the  even- 
ing. This  consisted  largely  of  Colloquies,  one  of 
which  was  the  School  of  Orators,  whose  names  were 
Schemer,      Fickle,      Bother'em,     Lumper,     O'Tire'em, 


HISTORY  OF  HANOVER  ACADEMY.  9I 

O'Whack'em,  and  Check,  respectively  represented  by 
F.  W.  Clapp,  C.  B.  Phillips,  C.  H.  Eells,  J.  S.  Crosby, 
K.  Whitman,  E,  H.  Clapp,  and  W.  B.  Young.  Another 
was  Le  Melange,  in  which  figured  Stubbins,  a  Yankee, 
Linguist,  Philosopher,  Poet,  Transcendentalist,  Mathe- 
matician, Logician,  Patriot  and  Elocutionist,  who  were 
also  represented  by  Augustus  Jacobs,  F.  W.  Clapp,  J. 
S.  Crosby,  J.  P.  Thorndike,  C.  H.  Eells,  K.  Whitman, 
I.  L.  Waterman,  and  C.  B.  Phillips.  A  third  colloquy 
was  Maurice,  the  Woodcutter,  and  among  the  actors 
we  see  the  new  names  of  J.  T.  Corlew,  W.  L  Wright, 
A.  L.  Stetson,  and  Misses  L.  A.  Hollis  and  A.  M.  Barker. 
Besides  this  was  the  Pastoral  of  the  Seasons,  in 
which  Misses  M.  W.  Robbins,  P.  N.  Robbins,  C.  S. 
Gardner,  L.  A.  Hollis,  E.  S.  Salmond,  H.  D.  PVeeman, 
S.  E.  Sylvester,  E.  F.  Raskins,  A.  C.  Hatch,  F.  L. 
Howland,  and  H.  P.  Leach  took  part.  Between  or  in 
addition  to  these  parts  were  twenty  Addresses  by  the 
young  gentlemen,  many  of  whom  we  have  mentioned,  to 
which  names  we  would  add  those  of  Elbridge  E.  Gard- 
ner, Emery  Burgess,  Morrill  A.  Phillips,  Charles  T. 
Whitman,  Charles  P.  French,  William  F.  Talbot,  and 
George  W.  Mann.  All  these  exercises,  interspersed 
with  Music,  must  have  made  a  lengthened  performance. 
Perhaps  we  may  here  notice  next  year's  Exhibition 
Programme  (Nov.  20,  i860),  which  in  character  differs 
somewhat  from  the  former  one.  For  we  have  besides 
the  speaking  of  pieces  the  delivery  of  original  Orations, 
viz.,  on  Education  by  J.  P.  Thorndike,  on  Government 
by  Kilborn  Whitman,  on  the  Formation  of  Meadows  on 
North  River  by  Eugene  H.  Clapp,  on  St.  Stephen's 
Bell  by  Joseph  T.  Corlew,  and  on  Eloquence  by  John  S. 
Crosby.     Then    there    was    one    Colloquy,    called    the 


92  HISTORY  OF  HANOVER  ACADEMY. 

Spinning  Wheel  and  the  Piano,  also  a  brief  Dialogue 
on  the  Hatter  and  the  Printer,  and  the  lengthy 
Historical  Dialogue  of  Wilhelm  Tell. 

The  programme  of  the  Alumni  Association  for  Nov. 
30,  i860,  announces  that  ''the  Exercises  at  the  Episco- 
pal Church  commence  at  2  1-2  P.  M.,  and  the  address 
will  be  delivered  by  Rev.  David  B.  P^ord  "  ;  also  that 
there  will  be  a  Social  Gathering  in  the  Hall  in  the  even- 
ing, and  addresses  are  expected  from  former  Principals, 
and  various  members  of  the  Association.  Others  than 
alumni  of  the  Academy  have  discoursed  on  similar  occa- 
sions later  in  the  Episcopal  Church,  —  Mr.  Peleg  T. 
Keene  in  1863,  and  still  others  perhaps,  but  its  doors 
have  not,  I  believe,  since  been  opened  to  any  other 
alumni  orators.*  Possibly  the  address  of  the  afore- 
mentioned ora:tor  of  the  day  finished  up  the  business  in 
that  line  for  all  time.  If  this  be  so,  let  us  look  at  his 
production  a  little  longer  before  dismissing  it  forever. 
Its  theme  was  "  Intellectual  and  Moral  Culture  in  our 
Public  Schools."  It  was  afterwards  printed,  for  sub- 
stance, in  the  Boston  Review,  and  was  also  published 
subsequently  in  pamphlet  form.  The  author's  conten- 
tion in  the  discourse  is  that  our  public  schools  should 
.not  be  destitute  of  moral  and  religious  training  and 
influence,  while  all  theological  teaching  and  sectarian 
dogmas  should  be  discarded.  In  doing  this,  he  considers 
and  endeavors  to  answer  three  objections  :  First,  That 
children  should  not  be  instructed  in  any  religious  tenets 
or  doctrines  until  they  shall  have  arrived  at  maturity  of 
understanding,  and  for  themselves  shall  be  able  to  judge 

*  The  Directors  on  Nov.  10,  I8GI,  voted  to  grant  the  use  of  the 
Academy  Hall  on  Friday  evening,  Nov.  22d,  to  the  Hanover 
Academy  Alumni  Association. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  93 

between  right  and  wrong;  Second,  That  the  school- 
room is  not  a  fit  place  for  religious  instruction  ;  that 
there  is  no  natural  connection  or  congruency  between 
the  teaching  of  religion  and  the  teaching  of  mathe- 
matics, geography  and  grammar  ;  that  the  mingling 
together  of  profane  and  sacred  studies  in  school  would 
tend  to  diminish  one's  reverence  for  the  Bible  ;  and  that 
the  proper  place  for  imparting  religious  instruction  is  in 
the  family  circle,  the  church,  and  the  Sabbath  school. 
Third,  However  desirable  in  itself  may  be  the  union  of 
intellectual  and  moral  culture  in  our  public  schools,  it  is 
yet  wholly  impossible  on  account  of  the  multiplicity  of 
religions  and  religious  sects  in  our  land.  We  may  state 
that  the  author  began  his  address  by  quoting  the  law  of 
1647  fo>"  the  establishing  of  public  schools,  which  was 
enacted  in  order  to  thwart  the  wiles  of  *'  yt  ould  deluder, 
Satan,"  and  "yt  learning  may  not  be  buried  in  ye  grave 
of  our  fathers."  In  closing  his  address,  the  author 
quotes  from  the  last  speech  which  Webster  uttered  in 
Faneuil  Hall : 

"  We  know  that  when  we  work  upon  materials  im- 
mortal and  imperishable,  they  will  bear  the  impress 
which  we  place  upon  them  through  endless  ages  to 
come.  If  we  work  upon  marble,  it  will  perish.  If  we 
work  upon  brass,  time  will  efface  it.  If  we  rear 
temples,  they  will  crumble  to  dust.  But  if  w^e  work  on 
men's  immortal  minds,  —  if  we  imbue  them  with  high 
principles,  with  the  just  fear  of  God  and  of  their  fellow- 
men, —  we  engrave  on  those  tablets  something  which  no 
time  can  efface,  but  which  will  brighten  and  brighten  to 
all  eternity." 

But  we  must  not  yet  wholly  lose  sight  of  the  Acad- 
emy and  its   Preceptor,  Mr.  Reed.     We   see  from   the 


94  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

records  that  under  his  regime  the  heating  by  the  fur- 
nace, probably  a  very  small  one,  has  been  discontinued, 
and  the  old  stove  and  fixings  have  been  exchanged  for  a 
new  air-tight  stove  ;  new  seats  have  been  placed  at  the 
sides  of  the  hall,  and  repairs  have  been  made  on  the 
fence,  the  well-curb,  and  the  bucket-rope.*  The  summer 
term  of  1859  was  shortened  to  seven  weeks  on  account 
of  the  teacher's  sickness.  Not  long  before  his  resigna- 
tion he  presents  a  map  of  Plymouth  County  for  the 
benefit  of  the  Academy.  His  resignation  at  the  close 
of  the  Winter  term  calls  forth  the  following  vote,  passed 
Jan.  24,  i860.  "Voted;  That  in  accepting  the  resigna- 
tion of  Mr.  Charles  A.  Reed,  M.  A.,  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees take  pleasure  in  assuring  him  of  their  high  satis- 
faction in  the  services  he  has  rendered  as  Principal  of 
Hanover  Academy  for  the  last  three  and  a  half  years, 
their  regret  in  being  deprived  of  his  services  as  a 
Teacher,  and  their  best  wishes  for  his  future  success 
and  happiness  in  the  profession  on  which  he  proposes  to 
enter." 

From  a  partial  list  of  Mr.  Reed's  pupils  as  furnished 
by  himself,  and  from  the  pages  of  the  Philomathean 
Library  Book,  I  have  gathered  the  following  mostly 
new  names.  Probably  several  of  the  scholars  named 
began  with  Mr.  Barstow  or  even  earlier,  and  some  may 
have  begun  later  than  with  Mr.  Reed.  There  are  no 
catalogues  to  help  us  decide  on  these  matters. 

Nathaniel  Besse,  Lysander  F.  Bates,  Samuel  N. 
Blake,  Thomas  D.  Brooks,  Emery  Burgess,  Edwin  J. 
Bates,  Alice  Mead  Barker,  Sylvia  A.  Bourne,  Sarah  W. 

*This  windlass  arrangement  erelong  Siave  place  to  a  chain  pump, 
and  this  in  turn  to  a  pump  with  handle,  till  finally  pumps  and  well  were 
wholly  discarded. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  95 

Burgess,  Amy  Elizabeth  Barstow,  Charlotte  E.  Brackett, 
Laura  A.  Brewster,  George  H.  Clapp,  Elisha  F.  Cole- 
man, Albert  F.  Curtis,  Benjamin  Curtis,  Otis  Cushing, 
John  S.  Crosby,  Joseph  T.  Corlew,  H.  G.  Crossley,  Mary 
Collamore,  Lucy  H.  Chamberlain,  George  F.  Damon, 
G.  F.  Dwelley,  Charles  E.  D\velley,  George  Dana 
Doten,  P>anklin  Thomas  Doten,  Mercy  A.  Doane, 
Lyclia  A.  Damon,  Sarah  M.  Damon,  H.  M.  Dunbar, 
Abbie  C.  Donnell,  Jennie  B.  Donnell,  James  J.  Ford, 
Earle  B.  Ford,  William  A.  Farrar,  Charles  P.  French, 
Willis  H.  Freeman,  Huldah  D.  Freeman,  Louisa  A. 
Farrar,  Henry  H.  Gardner,  Elbridge  Everett  Gardner, 
Charlotte  S.  Gardner,  Thomas  B.  Holmes,  John  Hunt, 
John  F.  Hatch,  EHzabeth  A.  HoUis,  Esther  Foster 
Haskins,  Fidelia  L.  Howland,  Mary  P.  Howland,  Abbie 
Caroline  Hatch,  Mary  D.  A.  Hatch,  Aurelia  Hall, 
Henry  Herbert  Josselyn,  Augustus  Jacobs,  Helen  M. 
Josselyn,  Louisa  C.  Josselyn,  Joanna  Josselyn,  Harriet 
P.  Leach,  George  W.  Mann,  Florence  Ella  Mann, 
Julia  M.  Monroe,  Rowena  Orcutt,  John  Q.  Pratt,  George 
M.  Reed,  William  A.  Robbins,  Florence  V.  Rogers, 
Mary  W.  Robbins,  Phebe  N.  Robbins,  Irene  M.  Rose, 
Abner  L.  Stetson,  George  E.  Stockbridge,  Joshua 
Adams  Stetson,  John    Q.  Stetson,  Susan  J.  Stetson,  F. 

A.  Stockbridge,  Susan  R.  Stetson,  Elizabeth  Stock- 
bridge,  Juletta  Sylvester,  Caroline  T.  Southworth,  A. 
J.  Sampson,  J.  P.  Thorndike,  Helen  M.Thomas,  Susan 
J.  Turner,  Mary  C.  Tolman,  Rudolphus  C.  Waterman, 
F.  T.  Whiting,  George  Whiting,  Warren  Irving  Wright, 
Irenaeus  L.  Waterman,  Charles  T.  Whitman,  Betsey 
H.  Whiting,  Lucinda  E.  Wilder,  Emily  Waters,  William 

B.  Young. 

On  the  date  last  mentioned,  Samuel  G.  Stone  (i860- 


g6  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

6 1),  a  graduate  of  Amherst  in  1859,  was  chosen  Prin- 
cipal to  commence  his  services  with  the  Spring  term, 
Feb,  27,  i860.  He  was  son  of  Thomas  S.  and  Martha 
(Spaulding)  Stone,  and  was  born  in  Cavendish,  Vt., 
Oct.  30,  1833.  After  leaving  Hanover  he  taught  in 
Rochester,  Ware,  Westerly,  R.  I.,  and  Charlestown, 
and  is  now  an  insurance  broker  and  florist  in  the  last- 
named  place. 

In  Aug.  6,  1866,  he  married  Alice  P.,  daughter  of 
Elijah  Beaumont  of  East  Hartford,  Ct.,  but,  I  think, 
has  no  children. 

Mr.  Stone  was  a  thorough  classical  and  general 
scholar,*  and  brought  the  highest  recommendations 
from  his  teachers  ;  but  owing  to  an  imperious  or  impet- 
uous disposition,  he  and  the  official  powers  soon  came 
into  collision.  On  Dec.  17  a  meeting  was  called  to 
confer  with  Mr.  Stone  as  to  some  complaints  respecting 
the  government  of  the  school  and  objectionable  language 
used  by  him  towards  the  pupils, — the  purpose  of  the 
meeting  being  to  advise  Mr.  S.  in  some  things  in  which 
the  Trustees  thought  him  indiscreet.  More  definite 
action  was  taken  on  Feb.  8,  1861,  when  a  committee 
was  appointed  '' to  state  to  him  the  dissatisfaction  of 
the  Trustees  and  parents  with  his  want  of  self-control 
in  the  government  of  the  school,  and  the  opinion  of  the 
Trustees  that  on  the  whole  it  is  best  for  the  interests  of 
the  school  to  make  a  change  of  Instructors."  At  a 
meeting  of  Feb.  1 1  this  Committee  reported  that  Mr. 
Stone  was  not  ready  to  say  whether  he  would  resign  at 
the  close  of  the  term,  or  take,  as  per  agreement,  three 

*It  is  related  as  one  of  his  attainments  that  he  never  could  be 
'  spelled  down."  At  a  spelling  match  in  Music  Hall  he  won  a  $600 
Steinway  piano. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  97 

months'  notice.  At  the  same  meeting  a  Committee 
was  chosen  to  make  inquiries  for  a  new  Principal. 
Shortly  after  this,  Mr.  Stone  gave  out  notice  that  he 
would  continue  three  months.  On  March  ii,a  meeting 
of  the  Proprietors  was  called  to  act  on  the  petition  of 
Seth  Barker  and  others  that  the  services  of  Mr.  Stone 
be  retained.  This  meeting  was  largely  attended  by 
spectators,  —  Mr.  S.  having  requested  his  scholars  to 
come  and  to  invite  their  friends  ;  but  the  time  of  the 
meeting  was  largely  taken  u])  in  discussing  the  fourth 
article  of  the  Constitution  touching  the  power  of  the 
Trustees  to  dismiss  a  Teacher.  Finally  after  long  de- 
bate it  was  voted  to  dissolve  the  meeting  and  conse- 
quently the  petition  was  not  acted  upon.  The  next  day 
after  this  meeting  Mr.  Stone  made  known  his  determina- 
tion to  remain  in  the  school  and  to  contest  his  right  by 
purchasing  a  share  of  the  stock  if  necessary.  Where- 
upon another  meeting  of  the  Proprietors  was  held  April 
8,  to  act  upon  the  matter  of  the  continuance  or  non- 
continuance  of  Mr.  Stone's  services,  when  it  was  "Re- 
solved "  by  a  stock  vote  of  the  Proprietors,  47  voting 
affirmatively  and  none  in  the  negative,  ''  that  the  ser- 
vices of  Mr.  Samuel  G.  Stone  end  at  the  close  of  the 
present  term,  Tuesday,  May  14,  1861,  provided  the 
Trustees  concur  in  said  vote."  On  this  closing  day  of 
the  school,  thirty  two  scholars  were  present  ;  and  all 
the  Trustees  were  in  attendance,  and  at  the  close  of  the 
exercises  the  Secretary,  Capt.  Elijah  Earstow,  read  to 
the  school  the  foUowing  notices  : 

1st.  The  Trustees  give  notice  that  by  vote  of  the 
Proprietors  and  the  concurrence  of  the  Trustees  of 
Hanover  Academy,  the  services  of  Mr.  Stone  as  Prin- 
cipal of  the  Academy  end  this  day.    • 


98  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

2d.  The  Trustees  in  behalf  of  the  Proprietors  and 
themselves  would  inform  Mr.  Stone  and  all  who  are  in- 
terested that  he  can  no  longer  occupy  these  premises, 
and  we  hereby  notify  him  to  remove  forthwith  his  books 
and  effects  from  the  building. 

3d.  The  Trustees  also  give  notice  that  they  have 
unanimously  elected  Mr.  P.  T.  Keene,  Jr.,  in  place  of  Mr. 
Stone,  who  will  commence  the  summer  term  on  Monday 
next,  May  20th,  1861. 

From  what  the  Trustees  know  of  Mr.  Keene  they 
confidently  recommend  him  to  all  who  are  interested  in 
the  welfare  of  their  children,  as  competent  for  the  posi- 
tion to  which  they  have  chosen  him."  * 

The  next  page  of  the  records  has  this  statement : 
"Saturday  night.  May  18,  1861.  A  mob  led  by  Samuel 
G.  Stone  assisted  by  John  S.  Crosby,  assistant  teacher, 
broke  into  the  Academy  by  battering  the  door  and 
gained  possession  of  the  building."  We  may  remark 
that  the  building  had  been  garrisoned  after  Mr.  Stone 
had  been  once  ejected  therefrom,  but  the  guards  could 
not  resist  this  modern  Caesar  and  his  forces,  armed  with 
stones,  brickbats  and  battering-ram.  Among  Mr. 
Stone's  abettors  in  this  work  of  darkness  were  not  only 
his  personal  friends  and  sympathizers,  not  only  a  big 
crowd  of  the  commonalty,  men  and  boys,  urging  on  the 
contest  with  their  shouts  and  cheers,  but  even  some  of 
the  youthful  soldiers,  who  were  making  the  old  Acad- 
emy their  rendezvous  while  preparing  for  the  civil  war, 
enlisted  in  Mr.  Stone's  behalf  and  did  valiant  home-ser- 
vice on  this  occasion  ere  they  shed  their  blood  on  the 
Southern  battlefields.     And  thus  was  this   our   Sumter 

*Mr.  Keene  had  previously  taught  in  our  Public  Schools. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  99 

taken  (not  long  after  the  Southern  Sumter)  and  held  by 
the  besiegers  with  force  and  arms  ;  and  Mr.  Stone  began 
his  school  in  the  Academy  building,  May  20,  1861. 

Early  in  June  an  Appeal  was  made  to  the  Supreme 
Court  by  Mr.  Stone's  lawyer,  Hon.  Perez  Simmons,  * 
for  an  injunction  to  keep  the  Trustees  from  interfering 
with  his  School,  on  the  ground  that  he  was  an  owner  in 
common  of  the  property,  but  Judge  Hoar  decided  that 
Mr.  Stone  had  thereby  no  exclusive  rights  to  the  prem- 
ises. The  Trustees,  however,  compromised  the  matter 
and  granted  Mr.  S.  possession  on  certain  conditions 
until  the  close  of  the  Summer  term.  On  leaving  the 
school  he  gave  to  the  Trustees  a  deed  of  his  share,  but 
he  failed  in  his  promise  to  leave  the  building  in  good 
condition,  and  the  Trustees  found  some  of  the  apparatus 
missing  or  injured. 

The  records  also  state  that  Mr.  P.  T.  Keene,  Jr.,  of 
Duxbury,  the  newly  elected  Principal  of  Hanover  Acad- 
emy, began  the  summer  term  also  on  May  20,  1861,  in 
the  Lecture  Room  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  but  on 
account  of  sickness  he  left  the  next  day  and  was  not 
able  to  recommence  until  June  19.  Length  of  term 
seven  weeks,  number  of  scholars  sixteen.  Both  of  the 
schools  closed  at  the  same  time,  Aug.  2,  1861. 

At  the  next  meeting  of  the  Board,  June  19,  it  was  re- 
solved to  incorporate  the  Academy  under  Chapter  6']  of 
the  General  Laws  of  Massachusetts. 

The  incorporation  was  effected  August  14,  1861, 
under  the  auspices  of  Benjamin  W.  Harris  of  East 
Bridgewater,  Justice  of  the  Peace,  afterwards  a  mem- 

*  Mr.  Simmons,  born  in  Hanover  in  i8ii,  and  a  graduate  from  Brown 
University  in  1833,  was  for  a  short  time  a  student  in  the  Academy,  prob- 
ably when  under  the  Preceptorship  of  Mr.  Bates. 


100  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

ber  of  Congress,  and  a  Judge  of  Probate  for  Plymouth 
County.  The  casting  of  votes  was  as  follows  :  Total 
in  the  afifirmative,  for  incorporation,  twenty-nine  votes, 
representing  eighty-two  shares.  Total  in  the  negative, 
two  votes,  rej)resenting  three  shares.  Total  absent  or 
not  voting,  thirteen  persons  representing  twenty  shares. 

After  this  vote,  Lemuel  C.  Waterman  was  by  ballot 
elected  Clerk  of  the  Corporation,  who  was  then  called 
forward  and  sworn  to  the  faithful  performance  of  all  his 
duties  as  Clerk  of  the  Corporation  of  Hanover  Academy 
by  the  presiding  Justice  who  then  vacated  the  chair. 

Thankful  we  are  that  the  war  is  over  and  that  no 
blood  has  been  shed  ;  but  there  are  some  results  of  the 
'Mate  unpleasantness"  which  we  must  notice.  The 
field,  indeed,  was  dispossessed  of  the  belligerents,  but 
they,  encouraged  by  Perez  Simmons  and  others,  set  up 
a  school  some  three  or  four  miles  distant,  in  "  Snappet," 
which  was  naturally  regarded  as  an  opposition  move- 
ment. Mr.  Stone,  however  did  not  continue  his  ad- 
ministration in  this  "  Assinippi  Institute"  more  than 
two  or  three  years,  nor  did  it,  as  subsequently  con- 
ducted by  Mr.  Crosby  and  others  a  few  years  longer, 
much  injure  the  Academy.  Then  there  were  home 
damages  and  expenses  to  pay  for.  Our  fort  needed 
repairing,  and  the  bill  for  repairs  was  $31.20.  There 
w^ere  also  counsel  fees — a  bill  of  Messrs.  Harris  and 
Jewell  for  $50,  and  of  Charles  F.  Choate,  Esq.  the  long 
time  President  of  the  Old  Colony  Rail  Road, for  $40.25, 
expenses  of  keepers  (guards  of  the  building)  $35.40, 
witnesses  to  Boston,  $8.50.  To  pay  these  and  other 
items,  Mrs.  Eliza  Salmond  gave  $50,  George  Curtis 
$25,  John  Cushing  $20,  E.  O.  Sylvester  and  Dr.  Free- 
man   Foster  $15  each,  Rev.   Samuel  Cutler  and  Isaac 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 


lo: 


H.  Haskins  $io  each,  Dr.  Joseph  B.  Fobes,  Rev. 
Joseph  Freeman,  Elijah  Barstow  and  T.  H.  C.  Barstow 
$5  each,  Nathaniel  Barstow,  $3,  and  Dr.  John  O. 
French  $2.  Received  also  $3.93  from  sale  of  Mr. 
Stone's  share.  And  thus  the  whole  bill  of  expense  for 
law-suit  and  damages,  amounting  to  nearly  $200,  was 
paid. 

Mr.  Stone  continued  to  reside  in  Hanover,  as  we 
have  seen,  for  some  time  longer.  For  two  or  three 
years  he  served  as  member  of  the  School  Committee, 
and  as  Secretary  of  that  Committee  he  wrote  for  the 
year  1862-3  a  long  and  able  School  Report,  covering 
twenty-four  printed  pages. 

Mr.  John  S.  Crosby,  of 
whom  mention  has  been 
made,  is  a  descendant  of 
Simon  Crosby,  an  early  em- 
igrant to  the  Massachu- 
setts Colony,  and  was  born 
in  Waldo  County,  Maine, 
Jan.  13,  1842.  InearJylife 
he  came  to  Massachusetts, 
studied  in  our  Academy 
and  taught  therein  and  in 
many  of  our  schools,  and 
was  regarded  as  one  of  the 
most  inspiriting  and  suc- 
cessful of  our  teachers.  I 
personally  knew  of  his  abil- 
joHN  s.  CROSBY.  ^y  ^g   a  tcachcr    and  dis- 

ciplinarian in  some  of  the  district  schools  of  So. 
Scituate  when  I  was  a  member  of  the  school  com- 
mittee   in    that    town.      In    1866   he    was   called    West 


I02  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER  ACADEMY. 

to  take  charge  of  the  High  School  at  St.  Joseph,  Mo., 
and  was  a  most  successful  master  of  that  school  for 
some  twelve  years.  After  this  he  was  settled  as  a 
lawyer  for  about  ten  years  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.  About 
this  time  he  began  to  take  a  special  interest  in  indus- 
trial and  social  questions,  and  at  length  became  a 
''  populist  "  agitator  and  leader.  As  a  platform  speaker 
he  stands  in  the  opinion  of  many,  almost  unrivalled  for 
magnetic  and  effective  oratory,  and  has  been  called 
"  the  Wendell  Phillips  of  the  single  tax  movement." 
In  1896  he  published  a  work  entitled:  ''An  Inquiry 
into  the  Nature  and  Functions  of  a  State."  In  1897 
he  removed  to  New  York,  and  has  now  a  law  office  in 
that  city.  He  was  twice  married  and  has  one  daughter 
living  near  us,  Mrs.  Louise  C.  Drew  of  West  Roxbury. 

The  Academy  having  now  been  incorporated  with 
the  desire  and  design  that  no  euicnte  like  the  one  above 
described  should  ever  happen  again,  the  Directors  at  a 
meeting  held  Aug.  26,  1861  voted  that  Rev.  Messrs 
Cutler  and  Freeman  be  a  Committee  to  confer  with 
Mr.  Peleg  T.  Keene,  Jr.  the  present  Principal  of  the 
Academy,  in  relation  to  the  adoption  of  such  rules  and 
regulations  as  they  may  deem  expedient  for  the  pro- 
tection of  the  Academy  buildings,  grounds,  and  fences 
from  injury,  also  in  relation  to  the  deportment  of  the 
pupils.  Whereupon  on  Sept.  2,  they  issued  the  follow- 
ing rather  stringent  rules  for  the  proper  regulation  and 
government  of  the  school. 

I.  There  shall  be  no  rough  playing  in  the  building, 
such  as  throwing  balls,  standing  upon  or  running  over 
the  desks  and  seats  ;  no  injury  shall  be  done  to  the 
fence,  trees,  or  any  other  property ;  no  pencil  or  other 
marks  on  the  wall. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  IO3 

2.  Any  scholar  injuring  the  building,  its  furniture, 
or  the  trees,  fence  or  anything  pertaining  to  the  Acad- 
emy shall  be  held  responsible  for  the  damage  he  may 
commit.  When  the  person  or  persons  are  unknown 
there  shall  be  charged  for  the  damage,  pro  rata,  in  all 
the  bills  as  "  Damage  to  Property." 

3.  No  scholar  shall  leave  the  premises  at  recess 
without  permission  from  the  Principal. 

4.  No  scholar  is  allowed  to  enter  or  leave  the  Acad- 
emy building  except  by  the  door. 

5.  No  scholar  shall  go  into  the  Attic  or  Belfry 
except  the  Bell-ringer,  and  he  only  when  it  is  necessary 
to  arrange  the  bell  or  other  things  pertaining  to  the 
building. 

6.  No  scholar  is  allowed  to  throw  any  paper  or  other 
article  upon  the  floor. 

7.  There  shall  be  no  profane  swearing,  no  indeco- 
rous language. 

8.  There  shall  be  no  use  of  tobacco  in  any  form  on 
the  premises. 

9.  Any  scholar  persisting  in  violating  either  of 
these  rules  shall  be  expelled  from  the  school. 

10.  (Additional).  No  guns  or  other  fire-arms  are 
allowed  on  the  premises. 

Possibly  from  the  adoption  of  these  rules  at  this  time 
our  readers  may  draw  an  inference,  rightly  or  wrongly, 
as  to  the  Academic  history  of  the  recent  past. 

With  the  name  of  Mr.  Peleg  T.  Keene  (1861-64) 
we  have  already  become  somewhat  familiar  He 
was  the  son  of  Peleg  T.  and  Ruth  Keene,  and 
was  born  in  Marshfield  Oct.  21,  1841.  We  have 
already    spoken    of   his    first    term    in     Hanover.       In 


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his  Second  or  Fall  term  he  had  thirty-five  scholars. 
His  programme  for  the  Spring  term,  Feb.  24,  1862, 
announces  Edward  Southworth  as  Assistant,  and  Susan 
A.  Smith  of  N.  Pembroke  as  teaclier  of  music.  Mr. 
Keene,  it  will  be  recollected,  began  to  teach  here  in 
troublous  times  with  only  a  handful  of  scholars,  yet  his 
last  three  terms  had  an  average  attendance  of  nearly 
forty-seven. 

On  leaving  here  at  the  end  of  the  Spring  term,  1864, 


PELEG   T.    KEENE. 

the  Directors  on  April  26  passed  the  following  Resolve  : 
*'  That  in  accepting  the  resignation  of  Mr.  Peleg  T. 
Keene,  Jr.  who  for  three  years  has  so  satisfactorily 
filled  the  office  of  Principal  of  Hanover  Academy,  we 
would  tender  to  him  our  appreciation  of  his  untiring 
efforts  in  promoting  the  welfare  of  the  pupils  under  his 
care,  and  that  we   congratulate  him  in  view  of  his  very 


HISTORY   OF  HANOVER  ACADEMY.  I05 

popular  and  successful  term  of  service.  The  Directors 
would  assure  him  of  their  interest  in  his  future  welfare, 
and  their  hope  that  he  may  be  as  useful  and  prosperous 
in  the  profession  or  calling  upon  which  he  may  enter, 
as  he  has  been  as  a  teacher  among  us." 

After  leaving  Hanover,  Mr.  Keene  went  to  North 
Adams  as  assistant  engineer  on  the  tunnel,  and  was 
shortly  after  called  to  Washington  as  clerk  in  the 
Bureau  of  Yards  and  Docks,  and  while  residing  there 
he  stu'Jied  medicine  in  the  Georgetown  College  and 
graduated  at  the  head  of  his  class.  Subsequently,  Dr. 
Keene  was  appointed  Health  Officer  of  Washington, 
which  office  he  held  for  a  number  of  years.  For  a  long 
time  he  was  there  associated  with  Dr.  D.  W.  Bliss  of 
"  Condurango  "  medicine  fame.  He  married  in  1875 
Miss  A.  Fannie  Reed  of  Rockland,  who  died  of  con- 
sumption in  1878,  leaving  one  son.  After  this  he  went 
to  Portland,  Oregon.  His  death  occurred  in  Mansfield, 
Mass.,  while  on  a  visit  to  his  sister,  Mrs.  George  C. 
Soule  who  now  lives  in  Boston.  "  At  the  time  of  his 
death  in  1889  he  was  connected  with  a  chain  of  hospi- 
tals from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific  coast." 

I  think  the  following  were  mostly  new  scholars  under 
Mr.  Keene  or  at  about  his  time. 

Marcus  F.  Ames,  Jerome  K.  Briggs,  George  Briggs, 
Frank  Baker,  George  Baker,  James  E.  Bates,  Edward 
G.  Barnard,  George  W.  Barnard,  Etta  H.  Barstow, 
Delia  L.  Baker,  Alice  M.  Barker,  Josiah  A.  Chandler, 
Henry  Currell,  Benjamin  Church,  Walter  R.  Clift, 
James  C.  Church,  Ida  M.  Chamberlain,  Bertie  H.  Cobb, 
Reuben  C.  Donnell,  E.  Frances  Damon,  Vesta  Ewell, 
Mary  L.  Eells,  Charles  A.  Foster,  C.T.  French,  Henry 
B.  Holmes,  Israel  Hatch,  Edward  Haskins,  Rebecca  J. 


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HISTORY  OF  HANOVER  ACADEMY, 


Joyce,  Wesley  W.  Kender,  James  Kent,  George  W. 
Lewis^  Sarah  F.  Merritt,  Urban  Percival,  Grace  H. 
Phillips.  Annie  M.  Polclen,  Isabella  J.  Pratt,  Charles  F. 
Randall,  Carrie  ¥..  Randall,  William  Henry  Savage, 
Horace  M.  Stetson,  Edward  Shepherd,  William  Ste- 
phens, Edward  South  worth,  Sidney  Soiile,  Melvin  W. 
Stetson,  Lorenzo  S.  Sherman,  Herman  Sturtevant, 
John  F.  Savage,  Emma  L.  Stoddard,  Emma  B.  Stock- 
bridge,  Waldo  Tilden,  Charles  P.  Turner,  Horace  S. 
Tower,  Herbert  A.  Thorndike,  Frank  A.  Tower,  Fred 
Tower,  Wendell  P.  Thayer,  Mary  B.  Turner,  Addie 
W.  Turner,  Fannie  J.  Wright,  Jennie  Widdows,  Katie 
Wood. 

Edward  South- 
woRTH,  for  a  time  Mr. 
Keene's  assistant  in 
mathematics  while  a  pu- 
pil in  the  Academy, 
was  son  of  James  and 
Julia  (Tilden)  South- 
worth,  and  was  born  in 
So.  Scituate,  April  26, 
1838.  After  honorable 
service  in  the  Civil  War 
he  was  elected  Repre- 
sentative to  the  Legis- 
lature from  the  third 
district  Plymouth  Co.  in 
the  Fall  of  1865.  Ap- 
EDWARD  scuTHwoRTH.  polntcd  Principal  of  the 

Coddington  Grammar  School,  Quincy,  in  1866;  teacher 
in  the  Dwight  School,  Boston,  Sept.  1867,  sub-master  in 
the  Rice  School,  Sept.  1869,  and  in  1878  was  appointed 


HISTORY  OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  10/ 

master  of  the.  Mather  School,  which  position  he  now 
holds.  In  Dec.  2,  1859  he  was  married  to  an  Academy 
pupil,  Eliza  S.  Talbot  who  died  May  16,  1864,  while  he 
was  in  the  army,  leaving  one  daughter,  Fannie  Baldwin, 
born  Feb.  20,  1861.  He  was  married  again  to  Hattie 
E.  Hill  of  Sherborn,  May,  i,  1867,  and  has  two  children 
living,  E.  Frank  and  Stacy  B.  Southvvorth. 

Mr.  Keene's  Music  Teacher,  Miss  Susan  A.  Smith, 
of  North  Pembroke,  has  in  late  years  given  herself 
more  especially  to  historical  and  genealogical  research, 
— being,  as  she  describes  herself  **a  busy  woman  with 
the  ancestral  trees." 

Under  Mr.  Keene's  administration,  and  in  the  midst 
of  our  great  Civil  War  an  Exhibition  was  held  in  the 
Academy  Hall  Friday  evening.  May  3,  1863.  The 
following  is  a  full  programme  of  the  exercises.  Our 
readers  will  perceive  that  it  savors  largely  of  the  war- 
spirit. 

Music — All  together  once  ngairi. 

Declamations. — 

Latin  Extract:    Speech  of  Adherbal  to  the  Roman  Senate. 

Willis  H.  Freeman 
God  bless  our  Stars      .  .  .          .  .         S.  B.  Thorndike 

Dialogue. — Not  an  Uncommon  Complaint. 

John  Doe Charles  F.  Randall 

Richard  Roe  .....  Charles  A.  Foster 

Reading. — What  is  Life Lizzie  E.  Stockbridge 

CoLLoquY. — Dogmatism. 

Upper  Dog  .....  James  C.  Church 

Under  Dog  Herbert  A.  Thorndike 

Outside  Dog  .....         Reuben  C.  Donnell 

Music— The  Echo. 

Tableau. —  The  Bridal  Prayer     .  Miss  L.  E.  Stockbridge 

Declamations. — 

Early  Rising  ......       Emery  Burgess 

Peace  to  the  West  ....         Edward  G.  Barnard 


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her  sons 


The  Sword  of  Bunker  Hill      . 
Drama. — Counterplot 

Mrs.  Vilmont  (a  widow  of  decayed 

Sophia  (her  daughter) 

Allan 

Henry 

The  Magistrate 

Eveline  (an  orphan  heiress) 

Matilda  (her  friend) 

Viola  (a  servant). 
Declamations. — 

Upward!  Onward! 

Our  Country 

Tableau.-— Day  and  Night 

Reading.     Revolutionary  Story 
Music.     There's  a  Sigh  in  the  Heart 
Dialogue.     Discretion  the  Better  Pi 

General  Feathers 

Corporal  Blunt 

Captain  Wary 

Private  Gore 
Declamation.     Words  for  the  Hour 
Music.     Welcome  to  May. 
Dialogue.     Juvenile  Rebellion. 

Blushrose 

Mintdrop 

Silvertop 

Amaranth 

Cantelope 

Major  Spindle 

General  Slasher 

Orator  Splurge 

Citizen  Topple 

Sergeant  Muddle 

Corporal  Tipkins 
Declamations. 

Crowning  Glory 

The  Polish  Boy 
Music.     Battle  Crv  of  Freedom 


.     Daniel  H.  Welch 

fortune)         Susie  A.  Smith 
Lizzie  S.   Salmond 
.  Joseph  T.  Corlevv 
Charles  T.  Whitman 
George  W.  Barnard 
Lizzie  E.  Stockbridge 
Annie  E.  Eells 


.     H.  A.  Thorndike 

Edward  Haskins 

f  Abbie  C  Donnell 

\  Emma  B.  Stockbridge 

Lizzie  S.  Salmond 

t  of  Valor. 

.     J.  T    Corlew 

E.  G.  Barnard 

Emer}'  Burgess 

Charles  T.  Whitman 

Edward  Ring 


Etta  H.  Barstow 

Annie  E.  Eells 

Mary  L.  Eells 

Amy  E.  Barstow 

Jennie  Widdows 

Charles  F.  Randall 

S.  B.  Thorndike 

Charles  A.  Foster 

Reuben  C  Donnell 

Eldward  Ring 

IL  A.  Thorndike 

.  Emery  Burgess 
Joseph  T.  Corlew 


Mr.  Keene's  term  of  service  in  Hanover  was    distin- 


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guished  by  gifts  made  to  tlie  Academy  fund  by  John 
Barstow,  Esq.,  of  Providence.  The  following  is  a 
copy  of  the  letter  in  which  he  makes  his  principal 
donation. 

To  the  Trustees  and  Proprietors  of  Hanover  Academy. 

Gentlemen. — Having  a  desire  to  aid  in  supporting 
a  good  school  in  my  native  village,  I  have  for  that  pur- 
pose deposited  with  my  much  esteemed  and  trustworthy 


JOHN     BARSTOW. 

friend  Benjamin  B.  Torrey,  a  U.  S.  Treasury  Note,  of 
One  Thousand  Dollars,  bearing  interest  from  the  19th 
of  February  last  at  the  rate  of  7  3-10  per  cent,  per 
annum. 

This  one  thousand  dollars,  I  present  to  the  Trustees 
and  Proprietors  of  the  Hanover  Academy  recently  in- 
corporated, and   their  successors,  in  Trust,    as  and  for 


no  HISTORY  OF  HANOVER  ACADEMY. 

a  ''Permanent  Fund,"  the  income  derived  therefrom  is 
to  be  applied  to  the  support  of  the  Academy  in  the 
following  manner. 

First. — Keeping  the  Buildings  in  good  repair. 

Second. — Furnishing  the  School  from  time  to  time 
with  Maps,  Atlases,  Books  of  Reference,  and  with 
such  School  apparatus  as  may  be  necessary  for  illustra- 
ting the  Branches  that  may  be  taught, — meaning  there- 
by such  as  are  not  usually  furnished  by  Teachers  or 
Scholars. 

For  Trustees  of  this  "  Permanent  Fund"  Thereby 
appoint  the  Treasurer  of  the  Corporation,  ex  ofificio, 
and  his  successor,  and  the  above  named  Benjamin  B. 
Torrey — authorizing  them  to  invest  said  Fund  from 
time  to  time  in  any  safe  and  productive  property  or  securi- 
ties, and  to  change  said  investment  at  their  discretion, 
— and  I  also  authorize  the  Trustees  of  the  Corporation 
to  appoint  a  Trustee  to  the  "  Permanent  Fund  "  to  sup- 
ply the  place  of  said  Benjamin  B.  Torrey  whenever  it 
shall  become  vacant  by  his  resignation  or  death. 


At  a  meeting  held  April  28,  1862,  the  Directors  in 
view.ol:  Mr.  B  irstow's  generous  gift  passed  the  follow- 
in  2;  : 

'•  Resolved  :  That  the  Board  of  Directors  in  behalf  of 
themselves  and  the  Corporation,  express  to  Mr.  Barstow 
their  grateful  sense  of  obligation  for  the  judicious  and 
timely  gift  of  one  thousand  dollars  which  he  has  given 
'  to  aid  in  supporting  a  good  school  in  his  native  vil- 
lage.'" 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  Ill 

This  fund  is  now  deposited  in  the  Warren  Institution 
for  Savings,  Charlestown,  Mass.* 

In  January,  1863,  Mr.  Barstow  made  a  proposition  to 
the  Trustees  for  the  erection  of  an  out-building  for  the 
female  department  after  his  own  pattern  and  at  his  own 
expense.  This  building  as  subsequently  erected  un- 
der the  supervision  of  Lemuel  Gushing  Waterman, 
Esq.,  must  have  cost,  I  suppose,  towards  two  hundred 
dollars. 

One  other  donation  to  the  Academy  in  1863,  was 
that  of  a  piano  which  the  Preceptor  hitherto  had  hired 
at  an  annual  rent  of  thirty-two  dollars.  It  was  offered 
for  one  hundred  dollars  in  cash,  and  towards  its  pur- 
chase Samuel  Cutler  and  George  Gurtis  gave  twenty 
dollars  each,  Mrs.  Salmond  fifteen  dollars,  Peleg  T. 
Keene  twelve  dollars,  John  Gushing  ten  dollars,  and 
others  gave  smaller  sums. 

Arthur  Sewell  Lake  (1864-65),  son  of  David  and 
Julia  B.  (Sanborn)  Lake,  was  born  in  Ghicester,  N.  H., 
Nov.  II,  1837,  graduated  at  Dartmouth  1862,  became 
Principal  of  Conway  Academy,  Mass.  in  1862,  of  Hing- 
ham  Academy  in  1863,  and  of  Hanover  Academy,  May 
16,  1864.      Prior  to  his    coming  here  it  would  seem  that 

*  I  have  a  letter  in  my  possession,  dated  Providence,  Dec.  28. 
1897,  from  Mr.  John  Barstow's  two  daughters,  expressing  their 
desire  that,  in  case  the  Academy  should  be  permanently  closed, 
the  fund  should  be  devoted  to  the  Hanover  Free  Library.  They 
express  themselves  as  being  "  sure  that  their  father  would  wish 
it." 

Furthermore  in  carrying  out  their  desire,  they  on  Dec.  19,  1898, 
signed  a  legal  document  authorizing  the  Trustees  of  said  Barstow 
fund  to  pay  it  over  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Hanover  Free  Library, 
the  income  of  which  is  to  be  used  for  the  purchase  of  books  in  gen- 
eral accord  with  the  instrument  of  trust  as  made  to  the  Academy. 


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HISTORY    OF  HANOVER    ACADEMY. 


he  taught  in  Titicut,  North  Middleboro,  Academy,  for 
its  trustees  "recommend  him  as  a  worthy  young  man 
and  an  accomplished  and  efficient  teacher."  My  neigh- 
bor, Dr.  Clarence  L.  Howes  who  was  fitted  for  college 
under  Mr.  Lake  calls  him  "a  fine  Classical  scholar  and  a 
good  teacher."     His    letters    of    application  date  from 


ARTHUR     SEW  ELL     LAKE 


Loudon,  N.  H.  Having  received  a  louder  call  he  re- 
signed at  Hanover  April  1865,  and  went  to  Thomaston, 
Ct.  where  he  taught  several  years  in  the  Academy 
which  was  erected  for  his  use  at  a  cost  of  $12,000, 
which  was  collected  by  himself.  Subsequently  he 
taught  in  West  VVinsted  and  in  Torrington,  Ct.,  and  in 
1873  went  to  Shenandoah,  Iowa,  his  present  residence, 
and  has  from  that  time  been  engaged  in  the  real  estate 


HISTORY  OF  HANOVER  ACADEMY.  II3 

business.  In  Thomaston,  he  married  one  of  his  pupils, 
and  has  one  daughter  who  is  a  teacher,  and  a  son  who 
is  connected  with  a  bank  in  that  place.  In  politics,  he 
declares  himself  to  be  "a  sound  money  Republican,  and 
in  religion,  still  a  Congregationalist." 

In  his  Hanover  reminiscences  he  speaks  of  the  won- 
derful performance  of  the  school  in  gymnastics,  of 
which  he  in  practice  knew  nothing.*  He  says:  "I  can 
still  see  them,  in  mind,  marching,  counter-marching, 
circling,  and  turning  hither  and  thither,  almost  getting 
into  knots,  but  finally  all  evolved  free  from  blunder  or 
failure  in  the  least.  The  ladies  had  a  special  costume 
for  the  exercise."  As  his  teaching  here  was  in  war 
times  he  one  day  arranged  to  have  the  school  sing 
"John  Brown's  body."  One  of  the  pupils,  now  a  staid 
Aesculapius  in  our  village,  expecting  a  solemn,  grave 
and  slow  song,  was  so  struck  with  the  novelty  of  the 
speed  and  apparent  hilarity  of  the  tune,  that,  as  soon  as 
they  commenced  singing,  he  began  to  laugh,  and  kept 
it  up  till  the  song  was  ended.  One  day  there  was  a 
ship-launching,  and  "we  all  went  down  to  the  ship  yard 
to  see  the  launching,  the  first  and  last  sight  of  that 
kind  to  me."  While  visiting  the  home  of  Daniel  Web- 
ster in  Marshfield  (April  15,  1865),  the  church  bell  there 
began  to  toll  for  the  death  of  Abraham  Lincoln  on  the 
day  previous.  He  brought  the  news  back  to  Hanover, 
and  "we  tolled  the  two  church  bells  in  honor  of  the 
dead." 

The  Summer  term  followinfr  Mr.  Lake's  resio^nation 
seems  to  have  been  omitted. 


*  I  find  from  the  Records  that  the  Acndetnv  Treasurer  at  about 
this  time  received  $8  25  from  a  "gymna.'^tic  class"  for  the  use  of 
the  Hall. 


114  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

During  his  stay  in  Hanover,  some  $50,  of  the  Barstow 
Fund  was  expended  for  the  purchase  of  reference  books. 
We  may  also  add  here  that  in  the  Summer  of  1866  Mr. 
Isaac  M.  Wilder  presented  to  the  Academy  a  large 
collection  mainly  of  College  and  Classical  books  which 
doubtless  belonged  to  his  son,  Joseph  E.  Wilder  who 
left  his  studies  in  Amlierst  College  to  enlist  in  the  war, 
and  was  killed  in  battle. 

Isaiah  Dole  (1865),  son  of  Wigglesworth  and  Eliza- 
beth (Haskell)  Dole,  was  born  in  Bloomfield,  now  Skow- 
hegan,  Me.,  May  23,  18 19.  After  graduating  from 
Bowdoin  College  in  1840  he  gave  himself  to  the  work 
of  instruction,  making  a  specially  of  Latin  and  Greek. 
He  taught  at  Bluehill  Academy,  1843-47,  ^^^  ^^-  Stephens 
Academy,  N.  B.,  in  Gorham  Seminary,  though  not  con- 
tinuously, 1848-64,  and  at  Lasell  Seminary,  Auburn- 
dale,  1875-81.  He  was  chosen  as  Preceptor  of  .our 
Academy  out  of  seven  applicants  who  had  visited 
Hanover  (there  were  fifteen  applications  in  all),  and  he 
began  here  Sept.  4,  1865,  and  resigned  in  November, 
after  teaching  but  one  term.  He  was  doubtless  dis- 
couraged by  the  smallness  of  the  school,  though  he  had 
twenty-seven  scholars.  After  leaving  Auburndale  he 
resided  in  Keene,  N.  H.  where  he  died  May  17,  1892 
of  pulmonary  consumption.  In  Aug.  18,  1844  he  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  T.  Pearson  who  died  in  185 1,  leaving  two 
children,  one  of  whom,  Edmund  P.  Dole,  now  of  Seattle, 
Wash.,  attended  the  Academy.  A  daughter,  Mrs. 
William  J.  Sewall,  resides  in  Keene,  N.  H.  Mr.  Dole 
was  a  frequent  contributor  to  educational  and  religious 
periodicals,  and  during  the  closing  years  of  his  life 
spent  much  time  upon   a  comparative  grammar  of    the 


HISTORY    OF   HANOVER    ACADEMY.  II5 

English  and  Latin  languages,  which  however  he  left 
incomplete.  He  was  undoubtedly  one  of  the  best  scholars 
that  ever  taught  in  our  school.  The  Academy  Trus- 
tees, in  their  printed  notice,  justly  say  that  *'Mr.  Dole 
comes  highly  recommended  as  a  gentleman  of  great  ex- 
perience in  teaching,  and  of   high  literary  attainments." 

John  P.  Apthorp  (1865-66)  son  of  a  Congregational 
minister,  was  born  in  Quincy,  111.,  Sept.  7,  1839.  After 
residing  for  brief  periods  in  different  places  in  the  West 
became  to  N.  Bridgewater,  now  Brockton,  in  1854,  and 
was  fitted  for  college  in  the  Academy  of  that  place 
under  the  tuition  of  Mr.  S.  D.  Hunt.  After  graduating 
from  Amherst  in  1861,  he  taught  for  a  brief  space  in 
Conway  Academy  (1861-2)  and  in  Myricksville  near 
Taunton.  "Overcome  by  a  wave  of  patriotism"  in  1862, 
he  enlisted  for  the  war  in  the  loth  Mass.  Battery  IJght 
Artillery  which  joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  just 
after  the  battle  of  Gettysburg,  and  which  took  part 
in  all  the  battles  and  campaigns  of  that  army  until 
the  surrender  at  Appomatox.  Of  his  two  brothers  who 
entered  the  army  one  was  killed  in  battle  near  Decatur, 
Ala.  in  1864.  Returning  North  he  soon  after  became 
Principal  of  Hanover  Academy  and  taught  the  Winter 
term  of  1865-6.  '*My  relations,"  he  says,  ''with  the 
pupils  and  people  of  Hanover  Four  Corners  were  very 
pleasant,  in  some  respects  more  so  than  in  any  other 
place  where  I  eyer  taught.  My  recollections  of  a  sleigh 
ride  which  the  school  took  that  Winter  are  still  very 
fresh.  At  the  close  of  the  term  the  pupils  presented 
me  with  a  Bible  which  I  keep  as  a  valued  souvenir  of 
that  time."  Following  a  brother  to  Florida  he  engaged 
somewhat  unsuccessfully  in    orange  growing,  also  quite 


Il6  HISTORY  OF   HANOVER  ACADEMY. 

largely  in  government  surveying  and  in  teaching,  and 
was  for  a  time  Superintendent  of  Schools  in  Leon 
County.  On  removing  to  Tallahassee  he  bought  a 
small  property  near  by,  and  has  since  devoted  his  time 
chiefly  to  his  dairy-farm.  In  1892  he  was  attacked  by 
a  nervous  disease  which  has  disabled  him  ever  since. 
His  letter  to  me  had  to  be  written  by  another  hand. 

In  August,  1873,  he  visited  Massachusetts,  and  was 
married  at  Ipswich  to  Miss  Ellen  Osgood  of  Fryeburg, 
Me.,  who  died  in  her  Florida  home  April  23,  1896,  leav- 
ing three  daughters,  the  eldest  of  whom,  Mary,  gradu- 
ated two  years  ago  at  the  head  of  her  class  in  the  West 
Florida  Seminary. 

In  March,  1866,  Mr.  Peter  L.  Woodbury*  was  en- 
gaged as  teacher  to  take  the  place  of  George  Henry 
Bliss,  of  Vermont,  who  was  accepted  to  begin  Feb.  26, 
but  who  failed  to  meet  his  engagement.  Mr.  Woodbury, 
the  son  of  Jesse  and  Hannah  (Duncklee)  Woodbury,  was 
born  in  Francestown,  N.  H.,  May  4,  1840,  graduated  at 
Dartmouth,  1865,  began  teaching  here  March  12,  1866, 
and  closed  the  school  with  a  shortened  term,  July  12, 
1867,  to  take  the  High  School  in  Foxboro.  Though  his 
school  closed  with  only  seventeen  scholars,  yet  the 
Records  say  that  during  most  of  the  year  the  school 
was  "  in  a  satisfactory  condition."  In  his  vacation,  Aug., 
1866,  he  writes  from  Francestown  on  the  expediency  of 
advertising  the  Academy.  He  states  that  he  has  had  an 
offer  of  a  High  School,  but  hopes  he  would  do  as  well  by 

*This  is  his  name  as  found  in  his  letters,  though  the  Academy 
Records  give  S.  as  his  middle  initial;  and  vet  in  all  his  college 
course  he  is  registered  without  any  middle  name.  The  L.,  as  I  am 
told,  stands  for  Levi. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  I  I7 

remaining  in  Hanover,  and  he  fears  that  his  good  friends 
here  would  be  disconcerted  by  siieh  a  change. 

Of  his  later  history,  I  have  only  learned  that  he 
taught  for  three  or  four  years  in  the  Holderness  School 
at  Plymouth,  N.  H.,  and  that  he  left  P.  in  1892  to  teach 
a  High  School  in  Eastport,  Me. 

For  some  years  past  we  have  had  no  list  of  students, 
but  I  think  that  those  whose  names  here  follow  newly 
entered  either  under  Mr.  Woodbury,  or  his  predecessors, 
Apthorp,  Dole,  or  Lake. 

Henry  S.  Bartlett,  Walter  S.  Barker,  J.  Williams  Beal, 
Alice  Briggs,  Lizzie  Barrows,  George  Currell,  Frank 
Clapp,  H.  E.  Chamberlain,  Frank  Collamore,  Susie  W. 
Clift,  Delia  ¥.  Carey,  Rose  Corbett,  Nellie  Clapp,  Clara 
M.  Chase,  Clara  Crooker,  Florence  R.  Cushing,  Belle 
Cushing,  Rosie  M.  Cobbin,  Sarah  C.  Church,  E.  P.  Dole, 
Nancy  C.  Donnell,  Annie  E.  P^ells,  Abbie  Estes,  Avis 
Ford,  Agnes  H.  P^reeman,  Justus  Gardner,  Briggs  Gul- 
liver, Clarence  L.  Howes,  Jennie  B.  Hersey,  Susan  P. 
Hatch,  Beulah  S.  Holmes,  Charles  Josselyn,  Isaac 
Keene,  Abbie  Kilbrith,  Maria  Leonard,  John  J.  McFar- 
land,  Herbert  E.  Reed,  Frank  A.  Reed,  Coolidge  Rob- 
erts, Sarah  A.  Russell,  Irene  Rose,  Edwin  Stockbridge, 
Alice  R.  Shepherd,  Carrie  Stearns,  Martha  E.  Snell, 
P^unice  P.  Simmons,  Mary  Savage,  Ella  B.  Stetson, 
Roger  Tappan,  Ella  J.  Thomas,  P'rank  H.  Waterman, 
Herbert  Witherell,  Amey  Young. 

Ebenezer  Bradford  Gay,  of  Dighton,  was  next 
chosen  Principal.  He  began  the  school  with  24  pupils, 
Sept.  2,  1867,  and  resigned  the  following  November, 
having  only  16  paying  scholars.  Verily,  if  it  can  be 
said  that  the  Academy  was  alive  during  this  recent 
period,  it  was  living,  apparently,  at  a  poor  dying  rate. 


I  15  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER  ACADEMY. 

John  Prince  Thorndyke,  (1867 — 68,  with  Mary  L. 
Eells  for  assistant),  "was  born  in  Boston,  Jan.  16,  1846. 
In  May,  1852  he  was  taken  to  Samuel  Brown's  in  Pem- 
broke, where  he  attended  boarding  school  for  boys,  held 
on  the  premises.  His  tutors  in  this  school  were  Messrs. 
Storrs,  Willard,  Crehore  and  George  R.  Dwelley,  of 
Hanover,  the  latter  being  one  of  the  most  famous 
teachers  in  Massachusetts.  Here  he  remained  as  long 
as  the  school  continued,  or  until  the  spring  of  1856.  In 
June,  1856,  he  began  attendance  at  the  Academy,  and 
continued  as  a  pupil  until  Dec.  18,  1862,  making  an  at- 
tendance of  26  consecutive  terms  with  only  an  absence  of 
five  days.  His  teachers  in  the  Academy  were  Messrs. 
F.  O.  Barstow,  C.  A.  Reed,  S.  G.  Stone,  and  P.  T. 
Keene. 

"Besides  enjoying  the  advantage  of  a  longer  term  of 
instruction  in  this  institution  than  any  other  pupil,  it 
may  be  of  interest  to  note  that  with  the  exception  of 
Mr.  P\  O.  Barstow  [and  Charles  Hitchcock]  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  is  the  only  person  who  ever  was  both 
pupil  and  preceptor  of  the  Academy.  On  December  8, 
1867,  he  began  his  labors  as  principal  of  the  school  which 
was  in  a  very  weak  condition,  numbering  only  16  pupils  ; 
but  by  unfaltering  perseverance  he  soon  raised  the  rep- 
utation of  the  school  to  its  old  time  status,  and  when  he 
closed  his  work,  Nov.  20,  1868,  he  had  the  satisfaction 
of  knowing  he  had  made  a  successful  effort  as  results  in 
all  directions  abundantly  proved.  In  the  spring  of  i860 
he  became  interested  in  religion,  and  was  christened 
into  the  Episcopal  Church,  Hanover,  by  Rev.  Samuel 
Cutler,  July  15,  and  was  confirmed  by  Bishop  Eastburn 
June  25,  1861.  In  March  8,  1869,  he  was  baptized  in 
Niagara  river  at  Tonawanda,  N.  Y.,  and  united  with  the 


HISTORY  OF  HANOVER  ACADEMY.  I  I9 

"  Disciples  of  Christ  "  denomination,  in  many  places 
known  as  the  ''  Christian  "  denomination. 

''On  Aug;.  30,  1869,  he  was  married  to  Flora  J. 
Straight,  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  by  whom  he  had  four 
boys.  June  20.  1894,  he  w^as  married  to  Agnes  W.  Glea- 
son,  of  Plymouth,  Mass.  Upon  the  transition  of  his 
little  three-year  old  boy,  in  1879,  totally  failing  to  find  a 
particle  of  consolation  (for  which  he  so  yearned)  in 
his  religion,  his  Bible  or  his  church,  he  gave  them  all  up 
as  broken,  unreliable  reeds.  After  mature  deliberation 
and  most  thorough  investigation  into  the  claims  of 
Spiritualism  he  became  convinced  of  the  truth  of  its 
philosophy,  and  associated  himself  with  that  sect.  He 
has  been  for  13  years  an  earnest  public  worker  on  the 
platform,  and  durino:  that  time  has  labored  in  13  differ- 
ent  States.  In  1894 he  was  duly  ordained  as  a  minister 
of  the  gospel  of  Spiritualism." 

The  reader  will  observe  that  in  the  above  sketch  I 
have  used  quotation  marks,  because  the  writer,  unlike 
any  other  of  my  correspondents,  sincerely  hopes  I  "will 
not  leave  out  a  word."  I  do  not  know  whether  this  re- 
quest was  prohibitory  of  my  adding  a  word  or  not.  Had 
I  taken  my  usual  liberty  I  could  have  spoken  of  some 
interesting  matters  which  Mr.  Thorndyke  has  omitted. 
I  will  simply  add  that  the  Academy  authorities  would 
have  retained  him  longer,  but  he  hoped  for  something 
better  in  the  great  West.  The  Academy  was  closed 
one  term  after  his  leaving.  He  states  in  a  letter  recent- 
ly received  that  "  After  leaving  the  Academy  he  was 
called  to  take  charge  of  the  public  schools  of  Tona- 
wanda,  N.  Y.,  and  that  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  com- 
mercial world,  East,  West  and  South."  His  present  resi- 
dence is  Flint,   Michigan,  where  he  has  recently  estab- 


120  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

lished  a  small  monthly  paper,  called  The  Flint  Mes- 
senger, "an  exponent  ot  liberal  thought.''  I  expected 
to  present  his  likeness,  but  for  some  unknown  reason 
I  have  failed  to  hear  from  him  of  late. 

We  are  happy  to  present  here  a  full  and  accurate 
list  of  Students  under  Mr.  Thorndike  which  he  him- 
self furnished  for  this  work.  We  print  it  in  full  and  as 
he  wrote  it,  though  it  contains  a  few  names  already 
mentioned. 

Henry  S.  Bartlett,  William  Briggs,  William  P.  Brooks, 
Samuel  J.  May  Brooks,  Charles  E.  Collamore,  Edwin 
A.  Collamore,  Frank  Jl  Collamore,  Francis  Collamore, 
George  N.  Curtis,  Abner  L.  Curtis,  Seth  A.  Curtis, 
Patrick  Christy,  Reuben  C.  Donnell,  Manley  J.  Gurney, 
William  J.  Hodge,  Willard  T.  Hatch,  Gilman  S.  Josselyn, 
J.  Austin  Knapp,  Samuel  S.  Knapp,  Thomas  Loring, 
James  Murphy,  Charles  B.  Muich,  Herbert  W.  Otis, 
E.  Frank  Otis,  Horace  D.  Osgood,  Frank  A.  Reed, 
Lorenzo  S.  Sherman,  Daniel  A.  Sherman,  Fred  C. 
Stetson,  Samuel  Tolman  3d,  Richmond  Talbot,  Frank 
H.  Torrey,  Miles  S.  Turner,  Charles  P.  Turner,  Frank 
H.  Waterman,  Edwin  C.  White,  William  B.  Wood. 

P'annie  H.  Barstow,  Clara  M.  Chase,  Lizzie  O.  Gush- 
ing, Annie  Church,  M.  Jennie  Currell,  Alice  H.  Curtis, 
Nancie  C.  Donnell,  Nellie  H.  Ford,  Sarah  J.  Flaveli, 
Mary  E.  Flaveli,  M.  Ella  Farrar,  Ida  H.  Frinsdorff, 
Mary  L.  Foster,  Lucy  J.  Gurney,  Fannie  A.  Hobill, 
Lizzie  M.  Howard,  Welthea  M.  Magoun,  Katie 
McCurdy,  Annie  A.  Murphy,  Mary  A.  Oldham,  Sarah 
A.  Russell,  Alice  R.  Shepherd,  Mary  E.  Sturtevant, 
Addie  M.  Stockbridge,  Lucy  P.  Stockbridge,  Ruthena 
Stockbridge,  Louisa  O.  Stetson,"  Lucy  A.  Stetson,  Ann 
E.  Stetson,  E.  Ellen  Savage,  Sarah  E.  Studley,  Julia  E. 


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Sylvester,  Grace    Thorndike,  Mary    P.  Tower,    Mary  S. 
Turner,  l{mma  II.  Torrey,  Ella  J.  Thomas. 

Josephine  McRoy  (1869-70),  of  Saxonville,  was 
born  in  Framingham  Jan.  28,  1850  and  was  graduated 
from  the  Saxonville  High  School  in  1865  and  from  the 
Framingham  Normal  School  in  Jan.  1869,  and  is  now 
the    wife   of    Mr.     Israel    Hatch,    an    Alumnus  of    the 


JOSEPHINE    McROY, 

Academy,  and  for  some  time  past  a  member  of  the 
School  Committee  of  Norvvell.  She,  as  sole  Principal, 
began  teaching  in  the  Academy  March  i,  1869,  for 
$500  per  year,  the  first  recorded  instance  of  an  Academy 
teacher's  receiving  a  stated  salary.  In  July  18,  1870, 
she  resigned  her  principalship  on  account  of  ill  health, 
the  last  term  being  shortened  one  half.  In  her  first 
term  she    had   twenty-three  scholars  and  in  her  second 


122  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

term  twenty-seven,  and  the  annual  Report  states  that 
she  taught  ''satisfactorily  and  successfully."  Dr.  H. 
L.  Sweeny  who  was  one  of  her  pupils,  states  in  his 
Historical  Address  of  1889,  that  she  ''was  very 
popular  with  the  pupils,  especially  the  large  boys 
of  whom  there  was  quite  a  number."  At  the  close 
of  her  administration,  however,  the  prospects  of 
the  school  were  not  encouraging.  The  Treasurer, 
Rev.  Samuel  Cutler,  in  his  Report,  Aug.  5,  1870  says: 
"The  establishment  of  a  High  School  in  Hanover  and 
also  in  Pembroke,  while  lessening  the  number  of 
scholars  in  the  Academy,  is  also  rendering  it  somewhat 
doubtful  whether  and  how  long  it  can  be  sustained." 
The  Academy,  however,  was  sustained  for  some  twenty 
years  longer,  partly  by  means  of  an  Alumni  fund,  the 
raising  of  which  took  place  at  about  this  time. 

In  the  first  part  of  i860,  the  chairman  of  the  Alumni 
Committee,  William  Carver  Bates,  sent  out  the  follow- 
ing notice: 

"Alumni  Fund. 

All  persons  interested  in  the  prosperity  of  Hanover 
Academy,  are  invited  to  contribute  to  an  Alumni 
Fair  to  be  held  at  Hanover  some  time  during  the  next 
Summer  in  the  Academy  building.  The  particulars 
will  be  announced  hereafter.  This  is  to  urge  every 
Alumnus  to  begin  early  in  the  work  of  preparing 
and  sending  forward  articles  for  sale  at  the  Fair. 
Packages  may  be  sent  to  Mrs.  Pldmund  O.  Sylvester, 
Hanover,  Mass.,  or  to  the  subscriber  at  Boston. 

It  is  proposed  to  give  a  subscription  Entertainment, 
musical  and  literary,  in  behalf  of  the  fund  at  the  Academy 
Hall,  P^b.  22,  1869,  tickets  to  which  may  be  had  of  the 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMV.  I23 

Committee.  Let  us  all  contribute  to  the  prosperity  of 
our  Alma  Mater." 

On  the  day  of  the  Subscription  entertainment  a 
communication  (signed,  ''S.  C")  was  handed  to  the 
chairman  of  the  Alumni  Committee,  stating  that  ''For 
the  encouragement  of  such  an  effort  (to  raise  subscrip- 
tions for  the  fund)  .  .  .  you  may  say  that  a  friend  of 
the  Academy,  and  in  memoriam  of  one  who  was  for  a 
little  time  a  pupil  in  the  old  building,  but  nowdeceased, 
[S.  Gardner  Cutler,  died  Feb.  12,  1869],  will  give  $100 
toward  the  fund.  It  will  not  be  necessary  for  you 
publicly  to  announce  the  name"  etc. 

From  the  proceeds  of  the  fair  which  was  held  in 
August  1869  amounting  to  about  $600,  and  from  sums 
added  by  friends,  a  $1000  U.  S.  Bond  was  purchased 
for  $1196.25.  In  1870  this  bond  was  exchanged  for 
thirteen  shares  of  the  Ogdensburg  and  Lake  Champlain 
Rail  Road.  On  July  20,  1871  another  hundred  dollars 
was  donated  to  the  fund  by  Mrs.  Albert  Smith,  daughter 
of  Rev.  Mr.  Chaddock.  And  on  Sept.  4,  1872  another 
fair  was  held  which  realized  the  sum  of  $323.36.  From 
a  report  made  by  the  Treasurer,*  Dec.  i,  1876  it  will  be 
seen  that  the  Alumni  F'und  at  that  time  amounted  to 
about  $2,300,  which  accrued  as  follows:  Twenty-eight 
subscriptions,  $718.  Fairs,  1869  and  1872,  $928;  R  R. 
Dividends,  $468;  Savings  Bank  interest,  $217;  total 
$2,331.  It  was  the  hope  of  some  of  the  Committee 
that  the  Alumni  fund  might  amount  to  at  least  five 
thousand  dollars,  and  it  is  further  stated  by  the  Treasu- 
rer, Wm.  C.  Bates,  that  according  to  his  understanding 
"the  wishes  of  the  contributors  were  that  the  interest 
only  of  the  fund  should  be  used  for  the  school,  and  if 
at  some  future  time  the  fund  can  no  longer  be  used  for 


124  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

that  purpose,  that  it  shall  be  given  to  some  educational 
object  of  acknowledged  merit." 
But  alas: 

"  The  best  laid  schemes  of  mice  and  men 
Gang  aft  a-gle_y." 

Owing  to  the  depression  of  stocks,  the  railroad  in- 
vestment proved  a  sorry  one,  realizing  a  loss  of  $912. 
The  number  of  scholars  naturally  lessened  by  reason 
of  the  High  Schools  being  established  in  all  the  sur- 
rounding and  outlying  towns,  and  no  adequate  support 
could  be  furnished  to  the  teachers  only  as  their  salaries 
were  eked  out  by  grants  from  the  Alumni  fund.  Thus 
there  has  been  paid  to  the  Preceptors  of  the  Academy 
from  1873  to  1893  inclusive,  some  $1,800  of  the  Alumni 
fund  (leaving  a  balance  of  between  two  and  three 
hundred  dollars  in  the  Treasurer's  hands).*  *Tt  is  per- 
haps fair,"  says  our  Treasurer,  "to  claim  that  our  ap- 
propriation of  $100,  or  $150,  annually  for  so  many  years 
kept  the  Academy  in  session  many  years  that  otherwise 
would  have  been  idle." 

I  think  that  most  of  the  following  new  names  belong- 
to  Miss  McRoy's  list. 

Anna  P.  Alden,  Willie  Barton,  Anna  Baldwin,  Mary 
D.  Boylston,  Arthur  Chamberlain,  Alfred  H.  Downes, 
Emma  Dorr,  Hattie  L.  Eells,  Martha  P.  French,  Alice 
J.  Gardner,  David  P.  Hatch,  Warren  I.  Hall,  Alice 
Hunt,  Eva  Hunt,  Alice  Harding,  Flora  J.  Magoun, 
Grace  L.  Percival,  Lillie  Paulding,  Fred  C.  Stetson, 
Henry  L.  Sweeny,  Samuel  S.  Sylvester,  Charles 
Sturtevant,  Eliza    S.   Sylvester,  Hattie  Stetson,  Flavell 


*This  balance  will  probablj  be  given  to  the  town  for  the  use  of 
the  Public  Library. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  I25 

S.    Thomas,     Anna   Tolman,    Emma    Thomas,     Emily 
Turner,  Isabel  E.  Witherell. 

James  Wallace  McDonald  (1870 — 71)  was  born  in 
Bangor,  Me.,  Jan.  26,  1843,  and  was  graduated  from 
Bowdoin  College  in  1867.  After  teaching  in  E.  Abing- 
ton,  (now  Rockland)  he  began  in  the  Academy  Sept.  5, 
1870,  with  31  scholars,  and  left  April  24,  1871,  before  the 
close  of  the  term  to  take  a  High  School  in  So.  Abing- 
ton  (now  Whitman).  The  scholars  in  the  Fall  term 
numbered  32  and  in  Winter  35.  It  was  to  his  disad- 
vantage, I  think,  that  he  followed  a  popular  and  greatly 
admired  young  lady  principal.  He  was  regarded  as  a 
good  teacher,  but  his  manner  or  discipline  was,  as  I  am 
told,  not  entirely  pleasing  to  the  school,  and  perhaps  ex- 
posed him  to  small  annoyances.  Dr.  H.  L.  Sweeny  in  his 
above-mentioned  historical  address  spoke  of  a  remarka- 
ble belfry  episode,  and  of  a  fruitless  effort  with  the  air- 
pump  to  deprive  a  mouse  of  the  breatli  of  life — which 
occurrences  some  of  the  students  may  still  remember. 
The  same  writer  also  gives  a  description  of  a  remarka- 
ble two-evening  exhibition  which  occurred  under  this 
teacher's  administration.  Mr.  McDonald  is  now  and  for 
a  long  time  has  been  an  efificient  and  popular  agent  of 
the  Massachusetts  Board  of  Education,  and  resides  in 
Stoneham. 

The  following  names  of  new  scholars  maybe  regarded 
in  general  as  belonging  to  Mr.  McDonald. 

Thomas  J.  Brooks,  Hattie  S.  Briggs,  Sarah  K.  Beal, 
Mary  A.  Cushman,  Charles  A.  Delano,  Percy  Douglass, 
Alice  W.  Eells,  John  Flavel,  Mary  A.  Hunt,  Mary 
W.  Howes,  Lucy  A.  Howland,  George  Lawrence,  Teresa 
Locke,  Lucy  Litchfield,  Frank  W.   Magoun,  Edgar  W. 


126  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

Phillips,  Edwin  P.  Phillips,  P'rank  Silver,  Arthur 
Sturtevant,  Edward  P.  Sweeny,  Sasie  Sylvester,  Emma 
L.  Savage,  Ellen  B.  Stetson,  Emma  A.  Stetson,  P'lorence 
D.  Sweeny,  Bella  Thomas,  Walter  I.  Underwood,  Ella 
J.  Vinall,  Fred  White. 

Roland  Hammond  (1871),  was  born  in  Mattapoisett, 
Feb.  14,  1842,  graduated  at  Tufts  college,  July,  1868, 
obtained  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  Harvard  University 
in  1872,  practised  medicine  in  Bellingham  until  1882, 
when  he  removed  to  Brockton  [Campello]  where  he  now 
practises  his  profession.  He  taught  in  Gilford  Acade- 
my during  1868  and  '69,  and  began  teaching  here  May 
2,  1 87 1,  with  23  scholars,  and  taught  one  term.  The 
Fall  term  was  omitted.  Mr.  Hammond's  manner  and 
disposition  seem  to  have  been  rather  the  reverse  of 
those  of  his  predecessor,  and  his  scholars,  I  presume, 
were  pleased  with  his  easier  nature  and  administration. 
In  Bellingham  he  was  chairman  of  the  school  committee 
and  superintendent  of  schools  from  1872  to  1882  inclu- 
sive, and  was  also  town  clerk  during  1880,  '81  and  'S2. 
In  Brockton  he  was  also  on  the  school  committee  in 
1886,  '8y  and  'S8,  and  was  Justice  of  the  Peace  from 
1881  to  '8S  inclusive.  In  Sept.  25,  1873,  he  married 
Mary  Lucinda  Rockwood,  of  Bellingham,  and,  in  1890, 
had  one  son,  Roland  Hammond,  Jr.,  born  July  29,  1875. 
I  think  he  has  prepared  a  genealogical  history  of  the 
Hammond  family. 

Perhaps  the  following  new  names  may  be  inserted 
as  belonging  here. 

L.  Vernon  Briggs,  Horace  Baker,  Nathan  Baker, 
Nellie  Barstow,  Stella  Barstow,  Charles  Currell,  George 
N.  Capell,   Fannie    M.    Cudworth,    Hattie    Collamore, 


HISTORY   OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  12/ 

Fiorina  M.  Collamore,  Lydia  Collamore,  Edwin  A. 
Damon,  Barney  E.  Dagon,  Jennie  Ford,  Willard  Hodge, 
Fred  Hopkins,  John  R.  Hobill,  Victor  E.  Hobill,  Lizzie 
Hobill,  Nellie  Henry,  Isadora  Hatch,  James  C.  Jones, 
Lizzie  Magoun,  Edward  Purcell,  Fred  Randall, Emma  M. 
Ramsdell,  Annie  B.  Ramsdell,  John  H.  Stetson,  Elliot 
Stetson,  Arthur  T.  Simmons,  Fred  Simmons,  George 
Stetson,  Frank  D.  Stetson,  Nelson  M.  Stetson,  Frank 
Sprague,  Addie  Sprague,  Fannie  Stetson,  Alden  D. 
Turner,  Charles  Turner,  Albert  Torrey,  Cleland 
Whiting. 

Rev.  Timothy  D wight  Porter  Stone  (i 871 --74), 
son  of  Rev.  Timothy  Stone,  and  named  in  partfrom  his 
uncle,  President  Ebenezer  Porter  of  Andover  Theologi- 
c.il  Seminary,  was  born  in  Cornwall,  Ct.,  July  27,  181 1, 
fitted  for  college  at  Phillips  Andover  Academy,  studied 
for  two  years  in  Dartmouth,  but  graduated  from  Amherst 
in  1834,  with  Henry  Ward  Beecher.  After  teaching, 
in  Concord  and  Plymouth,  N.  H.he  studied  at  Andover 
Theological  Seminary  and  graduated  ■  therefrom  in 
1842.  Subsequently  he  became  Principal  of  Abbott 
P^emale  Seminary  in  Andover,  of  the  Massachusetts 
Reform  School  in  Westboro,  and  of  the  Connecticut 
Normal  School,  and  taught  in  the  Norwich  Grammar 
school  and  in  several  other  Schools.  In  several  places 
he  has  been  teacher  of  elocution.  He  brought  recom- 
mendations from  the  Presidents  of  Dartmouth  and 
Amherst  Colleges  and  from  other  high  authorities,  and 
his  programme  states  that  "other  references  could  be 
furnished  in  abundance  from  every  section  of  the 
United  States."  He  began  teaching  here  the  Winter 
term  of   1871--2,  and  taught  something  over  three  years 


128  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

or  thirteen  terms.  The  average  number  of  Scholars 
here  is  given  as  thirty-six,  the  largest  fifty,  the  smallest 
twenty-five.  One  Winter  he  had  an  evening  school  of 
young  men  which  was  fairly  successful.  One  who  had 
good  means  of  knowing  speaks  of  him  as  "an  inspiring 
and  successful  teacher."  He  was  certainly  a  teacher 
of  great  experience,  of  large  information,  and  of  much 
capability,  but  was  at  times  rather  eccentric.  When 
teaching  here,  he  at  first  had  the  help  of  some  young 
ladies  from  abroad,  but  was  afterward  assisted  by  some 
of  his  scholars  and  by  his  wife  who  was  highly  esteemed 
as  a  teacher.  His  wife's  maiden  name  was  Susan  M. 
Dickinson,  a  native  of  Holliston,  and  she  is  still  living 
in  Cortland,  N.  Y.,  where  her  son,  John  Timothy  Stone, 
is  settled  as  a  pastor.  Her  two  daughters,  as  she  in- 
forms me,  still  continue  the  work  of  teaching.  Mr. 
Stone  had  been  married  once  previously,  but  of  the 
first  wife  and  of  several  grown  up  and  most  promising 
children  he  had  been  quite  suddenly  and  most  sadly 
bereaved,  and  he  probably  never  fully  recovered  from 
the  shock. 

During  his  stay  in  Hanover  an  addition  was  made  to 
the  philosophical  apparatus  to  the  amount  of  over  $150, 
for  the  payment  of  which  $100  was  received  from  the 
Alumni  fund,  and  $50  was  given  by  Mrs.  Bigelow. 
From  Dr.  Sweeny's  Historical  Address  I  also  learn 
that  a  fair  was  held  in  1872  on  the  Academy  grounds 
which  netted  about  $400,  the  proceeds  being  for  the 
benefit  of  the  Alumni  fund. 

Among  the  Academy  papers  we  find  this  resolve: — 
"That  the  Directors  of  the  Hanover  Academy,  in  ac- 
cepting the  resignation  of  Rev.  T.  D.  P.  Stone  as  its 
Principal,  desire    to  place    on   record  their  sense  of  the 


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industry,  fidelity  and  care  for  the  promotion  and  im- 
provement of  the  Academy  property,  and  for  the  best 
interests  of  the  institution  which  characterized  the 
discharge  of  his  duties  during  the  entire  period  of  his 
labors  in  this  relation." 

Mr.  Stone  was  ordained  at  Holliston,  March  i,  1843, 
and    served    in    the  pastorate  of    several  churches,   as 

at  Holliston,  Amesbury, 
Marblehead.  Stow,  and  As- 
sabet,  and  during  his  stay 
here  he  was  pastor  of  the 
Congregational  church  in 
this  village.  He  also  found 
time  to  write  several  works 
for  publication.  His  death 
occurred  in  Albany,  N.  Y., 
April  II,  1887. 

Towards  the  last  of  Mr. 
Stone's  teaching  here,  in 
1874,  M^^s.  Cheney  deliv- 
ered the  following  spicy 
poem  at  the  Alumni  Re- 
AUGusTA  BKiGGs  (CHENEY).  uniou.  At  my  urgent  re- 
quest another  picture  of  herself  is  here  presented,  taken 
evidently  when  she  was  in  one  of  her  merrier  moods. 

Alumni,    1874. 

I've  stood  before  you  now  so  many  times, 
And  offerings  gave,  of  sentimental  rhymes, 
I  thought  it  well  to-night,  to  change  the  strain, 
And  in  rude  doggerel  now  "rise  to  explain;" 
For  you  all  know,  I  have  a  merry  streak 
Which  prompts  me  oft  in  mirthful  vein  to  speak, 
Expressing  thus  the  wish,  as  you  may  see. 
That  this  our  gathering  may  more  jovial  be. 


130  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

And  looking  'round,  I  see  on  many  a  face 

Glances  annihilating  time  and  space, 

For  aged  wrinkles  fail  to  hide  the  grin, 

The  youthful  impress  of  the  fun  within. 

There's  Tolman,  though  his  hair  is  growing  white. 

He's  sprightly  as  a  boy,  I  see  to-night, 

And  I  myself,  though  getting  on  in  years. 

Here  feel  as  merry  as  my  young  compeers, 

And  with  a  smile,  my  memory  recalls 

Sad  capers  cut  in  Academic  halls. 

The  ancient  building,  with  bell  hung  in  air, 

The  recitation  room,  minus  a  belfry  stair. 

But  trap  in  ceiling,  cunningly  displayed. 

Tempting  young  climbers  to  its  secret  shade; 

Where  Nancy  and  myself,  by  help  of  boosting, 

Oft  ate  our  dinners,  'neath  the  rafters  roosting; 

And  talked  of  beaux,  I  fear,  far  more  than  books, 

Of  this  boy's  plainness,  or  that  one's  good  looks. 

Ah!  little  thought  I  then,  she  would  forswear  her  nation, 

And  French  become,  by  such  a  close  relation. 

The  bell  rope  dangled  through  the  ancient  Hall, 

And  many  a  merry  time  I  now  recall, 

When  from  its  use  most  slylv  'twas  perverted, 

And  every  bone  and  sinew  we  e.xerted 

By  nimble  use  of  our  extremist  pe.dals. 

As  champion  athletes  to  obtain  a  medal: 

A  swinger  stationed  was,  at  either  end, 

The  rope  was  big,  and  hard  !    and   Heaven  defend 

The  luckless  legs  of  rythmic  time  that  failed, 

Or  once  in  line,  before  the  ordeal  quailed. 

For  let  those  ponderous  strands  but  hit  your  heels, 

Your  laughter  changed  at  once  to  painful  squeals, 

And  I  remember,  when  my  calves  showed  scars 

More  numerous,  than  a  veteran's  from  the  wars. 

With  those  old  days,  most  vividly  there  comes 
The  stinging  satires  of  Preceptor  Holmes, 
Who  with  his  tongue,  could  more  effective  flay, 
Than  all  the  flogging  of  the  present  day; 
«     And  girls,  as  well  as  boys,  all  got  a  hit, 

And  cowed  beneath  the  lash  of  his  sarcastic  wit. 
Girls  when  approaching  joyous  sweet  sixteen. 
Are  just  the  age  to  feel  such  words  most  keen, 


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So  I  recall  a  day,  when  negligence  confessing, 

I  stood  before  him  with  imperfect  lesson. 

He  glanced  at  me  with  a  sardonic  smile, 

The  other  eye  on  Henry  Hall  meanwhile, 

And  said  in  voice  of  thunderous  expansion, 

"Did  you,  and  Hall;  go  to  the  Ball  in  Hanson?" 

And  Sarah  Collamore,  unlucky  elf! 

Was  always  bringing  down  upon  herself 

His  well  aimed  thrusts  against  her  flippant  way, 

And  nothing  was  too  sharp  for  him  to  say. 

So  one  day,  in  a  tone  which  struck  her  dumb, 

He  said,  "A  great  girl  with  a  skull  so  numb, 

Though  beaux  from  all  parts  of  the  country  come. 

She  has  not  wit  enough  to  do  that  sum." 

His  arrows  flew  with  never  ending  aim. 

Each  culprit  pointed  out,  and  called  by  name. 

That  one  reminded,  "that  no  strange  device 

Could  learn  his  lessons  by  Sophia's  eyes;" 

And  Mary,  when  dismissal  was  denied, 

Was  asked,  "If  Perry  waited  her  outside?" 

She,  venturing  her  boldness  to  display. 

Said,  "Wish  he  did,  but  he  don't  go  our  way." 

A  hundred  little  incidents  I  could  recall. 

Familiar  to  these  present  one  and  all. 

But  I'll  not  greedily  usurp  the  time, 

Lest  I  may  bore  you,  with  my  foolish  rhyme. 

Not  long  ago,  I  saw  some  witty  man, 
Had  chanced  in  a  directory,  the  names  to  scan. 
And  served  them  up  with  such  a  heap  of  fun 
As  scarce  seemed  possible,  he  could  have  done. 
So  we  within  these  walls,  so  well  defended, 
A  rather  motley  crowd  have  comprehended. 
Turners,  and  Gardners,  Dyers,  for  occupation, 
A  Carver,  and  a  Cutler,  per  quotation. 
The  shipping  too  has  stood  financial  shocks, 
And  well  built  Briggs  are  still  upon  the  stocks. 
And  the  young  Waterman,  in  spite  of  all  his  tacks 
May  yet  be  swamped  by  these  same  little  smacks. 

The  followers  of  Walton,  have  found  this  location 
And  angling  young  men  have  plied  here  their  vocation 
And  in  our  midst  have  slyly  baited  hooks 


132  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

Intent  on  fishing,  far  more  than  their  books. 
And  in  spite  of  laws  which  their  forefathers  set, 
Both  Salmon  and  Eells  have  drawn  into  their  nets, 
And  it  would  not  be  strange,  if  one  patiently  waits, 
If  some  bigger  fish  should  come  after  their  Bates. 

One  word  ere  I  close.     Hiough  I  justly  feel  pride 
In  the  dear  little  river,  so  near  my  home  side. 
As  it  slowly  meanders  through  meadows  of  green, 
The  flow  of  its  waters  so  calm  and  serene. 
Among  these  old  friends  no  envy  I  fear. 
You  can  spare  us  the  river  long  cherished  and  dear, 
And  scarce  on  its  banks  need  seek  shady  nooks 
While  the  light  is  reflected,  in  your  beloved  Brooks. 

Most  of  the  following  new  names,  we  think,  may  be 
assigned  to  Rev.  Mr.  Stone. 

Carver  Bates,  Cora  Bourne,  Sadie  R.  Beal,  Velma 
Briggs,  Elvena  Currell,  Lucy  Dagon,  Emma  J.  Estes, 
John  Farrar,  William  H.  Farrar,  John  H.  Flavell,  E.  T. 
Fogg,  Jr.,  Elmira  T.  Foster,  James  Hunt,  James  Ken- 
edy, Luther  Litchfield,  Frank  W.  Magoun,  Mary 
McCurdy,  James  L.  Paul,  Charles  Rose,  Fred  Sim- 
mons, Ernest  T.  Sweeny,  George  Stetson,  John  Stone, 
Herbert  Stetson,  Howard  L.  Swan,  Lizzie  G.  Stone, 
Susie  D.  Stone,  Agnes  S.  Sturtevant,  Abbie  Stetson, 
Ella  Turner,  William  H.  Webber,  Arthur  C.  Witherell, 
George  C.  Whiting. 

Mr.  John  G.  Knight  (1875-82),  the  son  of  Rev.  Joel 
and  Jane  L.  (Gould)  Knight,  was  born  in  Ipswich,  Jan. 
20,  1840,  educated  at  the  Academy  of  East  Greenwich, 
R.  L,  and  at  Wesleyan  University,  Middletown,  Ct., 
enlisted  for  the  war  in  1863  and  was  mustered  out  as 
Quartermaster-Sergeant  at  its  close.  He  first  taught 
in  Hingham  a  year  and  a  half,  and  then,  in  1868,  became 
the  first  teacher  of  the  Hanover  Hi2:h  School  where  he 


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133 


remained  nearly  seven  years.  In  April,  1875,  he  com- 
menced teaching  in  the  Academy  and  resigned  in  the 
Summer  of  1882,  after  a  service  of  wenty-nine  terms, 
or  a  little  over  seven  years, — only  two  teachers,  Messrs. 
Chaddock  and  Holmes,  having  taught  here  longer  than 
he.  For  many  years  he  was  Secretary  and  Treasurer 
of  the  Plymouth  County  Teachers'  Association,  and  for 
ten    years  he  served   as  member  of    the  School   Com- 


JOHN    G.    KNIGHT. 

mittee  of  Hanover.  In  1869  be  married  Harriet  J. 
Gardner  of  Hingham,  and  has  two  sons,  Gardner  and 
George  W.,  both  born  in  Hanover.  In  recent  years  he 
has  been  employed  as  clerk  in  the  firm  of  Ezra  Phillips 
and  Sons  of  this  town. 

During  his  teaching  here,  there  were  held,  according 
to  the  Treasurer's  Records,  no  less  than  three  "Flower 


134  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

Shows"  (planned  originally  by  Rev.  Dr.  Brooks),  that 
of  1876  realizing  $70.24,  while  those  of  the  two  follow- 
ing years  netted  $52.22.  From  the  same  records  I 
learn  that  Mr.  Knight  kept  an  evening  school  in  1878 
in  the  Academy,  which  Tietted  $25.  and  that  $45  was  re- 
ceived from  the  sale  of  an  old  piano.  During  his  academic 
service  he  had,  as  he  writes  me,  "two  or  three  very 
excellent  literary  entertainments,"  but  as  there  are  no 
printed  programmes  of  them,  no  full  account  of  them 
can  now  be  given.  It  is  a  source  of  regret  that  this  is 
the  case  with  most  of  the  Celebrations  and  Exhibitions 
and  Reunions  which  have  almost  yearly  taken  place  in 
the  life  of  the  Academy. 

Fortunately  we  can  present  here  a   brief  poem  which 
Mrs.  Cheney  gave  at  the  Alumni  Reunion  of  1880. 

Alumni,    1880. 

Once  more  dear  Alma  Mater  for  thy  sheltering  arm, 

Thy  weary  children  turn  again  to  thee, 
And  come,  as  in  our  happy  childhood  days, 

To  crave  a  blessing  at  the  parent  knee. 

We  lay  our  joys  and  sorrows  at  thy  feet, 

Full  sure  thy  heart  still  beats  for  us  unchilled. 

Though  sad  and  disappointed  we  may  come, 
Our  youthful  aspirations  unfulfilled. 

And  with  our  best  years  spent  in  bootless  strife, 
Achieving  nothing  of  our  youthful  dream, 

We  find  ourselves  both  old  and  grey 

Silently  drifting  down  Life's  wayward  stream. 

Who  ever  does  fill  out  the  woof  of  life. 

Or  perfect  the  original  design  ? 
Who  looking  backward  finds  naught  to  regret.^ 

Or  on  Time's  record  finds  no  faultless  line? 

Yet  not  repining,  to  thy  side  we  come. 

Far  more  than  we  deserve.  Our  Lord  has  blest, 


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And  though  our  thankless  hearts  sometimes  rebelled. 
His  unremitting  kindness  stands  confessed. 

And  as  with  joy  we  gather  here  to-night, 

And  in  fond  retrospection  view  the  past, 
Look  in  the  loving  eyes  of  youthful  friends, 

And  tenderly  join  hands  in  loving  clasp, 

We  feel  the  lowliest  of  us  has  not  lived  in  vain. 
But  all  some  niche  have  filled,  for  them  the  best, 

Where  each  has  found  for  them  Life's  problem  solved, 
And  well  content,  can  leave    to  God  the  rest. 

The  follovvini;  are  but  a  few  of  the  new  names*  which, 
as  I  suppose,  should  appear  in  this  list,  while  it  doubt- 
less has  names  which  should  appear  elsewhere,  or  possi- 
bly be  wholly  omitted. 

Addle  Alden,  Benjamin  P.  Barstow,  Mary  E.  Baker, 
Chester  Barker,  Walter  Barnard,  Lizzie  B.  Barker, 
Annie  W.  Bates,  Everett  E.  Corthell,  Lucy  B.  Clark, 
Carrie  K.  Curtis,  Minnie  E.  Capell,  Julia  Collamore,  L. 
F.  Doane,  Mercer  Ford,  Carrie  A.  Ford,  Josephine 
Ford,  Dennis  A.    Flaveli,  Chauncy  D.    Ford,  Angela  B. 


*  It  will  have  been  observed  in  the  course  of  this  work,  that  I 
have  i^eiierally  sought  to  avoid  the  frequent  repetition  of  names, 
and  so  I  have  chiefly  made  mention  of  netv  names  in  the  different 
lists.  I  would  again  beg  those  who  see  many  mistakes  in  these 
lists  to  consider  the  two-fold  difficulty  I  have  had,  in  the  almost 
total  absence  of  catalogues,  in  making  these  lists  :  first,  to  ascertain 
the  names  of  scholars,  and,  secondly,  to  give  these  names  their 
right  place.  The  doing  of  this  latter,  especially,  has  been  largely  a 
matter  of  conjecture,  and  I  have  no  doubt  that  manj' will  wonder, 
smile,  or  frown,  to  see  their  names,  if  perchance  I  have  these  right, 
so  tar  removed  from  their  proper  location.  My  only  hope  is  that 
these  lists,  imperfect  as  they  are,  will  serve  to  indicate  in  a  general 
way  something  of  the  numbers  and  character  of  those  who  were 
accustomed  to  attend  the  Academy  in  its  later  years.  I  am  certain 
of  one  thing,  that  these  lists  will  be  more  satisfactory  toothers, 
however  much  dissatisfied  they  may  be,  than  they  are  to  myself. 


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HISTORY  OF  HANOVER  ACADEMY. 


Ford,  Edith  G.  Ford,  Frank  E.  Hunt,  Ella  Josselyn, 
Charles  H,  Knapp,  Ella  B.  Keene,  Walter  Keene,  Clara 
Lindsay,  Nellie  Loving,  Louise  Loving,  Jason  A. 
Magoun,  Joseph  C.  Otis,  Daniel  Phillips,  Edmund 
Packard,  Solomon  P.  Russell,  Lucy  Russell,  Grace  L. 
Russell,  Ruthetta  M.  Sylvester,  P2mily  E.  Sylvester, 
Martha  W.  Sylvester,  Agnes  Sherman,  Grace  Stetson, 
Etta  M.  Stetson,  Martin  Simmons,  Lydia  D.  Stetson, 
Susie  Simmons,  A.  Y.  Tillson,  Susan  O.  Turner, 
Walter  R.  Torrey,  Howard  Torrey,  George  Torrey, 
Lillie  Totman,  Harriet  Tolman,  Alfred  Tolman,  Ruth 
Turner,  Samuel  A.  Walker,  George  H.  Whitman, 
Charlotte  E.  Win  slow,  Lina  White,  Harry  Winslow. 


FRANK    WALLACE    BRETT, 


Frank  Wallace  Brett  (1882 — S8),  born  in   Hing- 


ham,  May  14,  1861,  was 


graduated  from  the    Hingham 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  1 3/ 

High  School,  and,  in  1880,  from  the  Bridgewater  Nor- 
mal School.  After  teaching  in  Norwell  Centre  about  a 
year  and  a  half,  he  became  preceptor  of  Hanover  Acad- 
emy September,  1882,  and  resigned  in  June,  1888,  his 
term  of  Academic  teaching  amounting  to  six  years, 
being  in  comparison  with  that  of  others  the  fourth  in 
duration.  The  school  increased  in  numbers  until  the 
average  attendance  exceeded  40,  and  the  membership 
exceeded  50  per  year,  while  his  income  as  teacher, 
(with  help  from  the  Alumni  fund,  presumably)  averaged 
$7^0  a  year,  and  in  the  last  year  amounted  to  $925. 
During  his  administration,  (in  1886)  a  great  work  was 
done  in  repairing  and  fitting  up  the  Academy  at  an  ex- 
pense of  over  $500,  for  the  payment  of  which  ^150  was 
received  from  Mrs.  Bigelow,  ;^ioo  from  Mrs.  Salmond, 
and  ^271  from  the  Barstow  Fund.  The  Hanover  Brass 
Band,  by  its  rent  of  the  hall,  lent  a  helping  hand  to  the 
furtherance  of  the  interests  of  the  Academy. 

While  teaching  in  Hanover  Mr.  Brett  took  to  himself 
a  wife.  In  August  2,  1885,  he  married  Annie  Josephine 
Cuming,  and  has  had  two  sons,  Afley  Leonel,  born 
August  9,  1887,  and  Roy  Cuming,  born  August  22,  1891, 
both  of  whom  are  living. 

Mr.  Brett,  more  than  other  teachers,  seems  to  have 
patterned  somewhat  after  college  examples.  I  refer  to 
his  occasional  issuance  of  catalogues  or  leaflets,  con- 
taining the  scholars'  names.  So  far  as  I  have  seen,  Mr. 
George  Conant  is  the  only  other  teacher  who  has  done 
so.  Then  he  advertises  a  fixed  course  of  study,  at  the 
end  of  which  is  a  graduation  with  its  salutatory,  vale- 
dictory, etc.  Four  such  graduation  programmes  I  have 
seen  each  ending  off  with  a  Latin  motto,  perhaps  not 
always  patterned  after  the  highest  style  of    Ciceronian 


138  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY, 

Latinity),  and  two  of  these,  referring  to  the  years  1886 
and  1887,  required  eacln  an  all-day  performance.  In  the 
former  case  there  were  two  graduates,  Georgie  Ellen 
Barstow,  and  Hattie  Mabel  Chandler,  and  an  Alumni 
oration  pronounced  by  William  Paley  Duncan,  Esq.,  in 
which  he  gave  a  very  full  account  of  the  school  for  the 
past  thirty  years,  and  many  reminiscences  of  his  school 
days*.  We  herewith  give  the  opening  and  the  close  of 
his  address  as  printed  in  a  local  sheet. 

"  Mr.  President,  fellow  Alumni,  and  former  classmates: 
Although  I  wish  this  honor  had  fallen  to  another,  I 
yet  most  gratefully  participate  in  the  anniversary  exer- 
cises and  reunion  of  the  Alumni  of  our  ancient  Acade- 
my. I  welcome  you  back  to  the  classic  shades  of  our 
Alma  Mater  on  this  bright  day  of  leafy  June.  I  wel- 
come you  Elders  freighted  with  life's  successes,  with 
honor  and  position ;  I  welcome  you  whose  life  has  not  so 
smoothly  onward  run,  who  have  encountered  the  rough 
edges  of  disappointment,  whose  bright  hopes  have  not 
been  fully  realized.  And  you  I  welcome  who  to-day, 
just  now,  have  entered  our  ranks,  you  newly  fledged 
Alumni,  full  of   fond  expectations,    ambitious    thought 

*In  a  recent  letter  he  mentions  this  reminiscence  :  "  We  had  a 
Debating  Club  composed  largely  of  students  of  the  Academy.  The 
question  for  debate  one  evening  was  on  this  wise  :  '  Which  is  the 
greater  sinner,  the  drunkard  or  the  moderate  drinker.?'  After 
listening  to  a  labored  argument  on  one  side  tliat  the  moderate 
drinker  was  by  far  the  greater  offender,  a  well  known  disputant  on 
the  opposite  side,  [Mr.  James  Turner,  I  should  think]  arose  and 
said  :  '  Mr.  President,  if  the  argument  of  the  gentleman  is  true  that 
the  moderate  drinker  is  the  greater  sinner,  I  should  advise  that  all  of 
us  moderate  drinkers  become  drunkards  in  order  to  improve 
our  morals.'  Suffice  it  to  say  that  the  debate  was  decided  in  his 
favor." 


HISTORY  OF  HANOVER  ACADEMY.  I  39 

and  purpose.  Brothers,  sisters,  teachers,  friends,  robust, 
victorious,  weary  or  disheartened,  beginners,  or  just 
ending  life's  drama,  one  and  all,  I  bid  you  welcome,  yea, 
thrice  welcome,  on  this  festal  day." 

The  closing  part  was  as  follows  : 

''  But,  fellow  i\lumni,  I  forbear.  In  theory  we  are  all 
young,  but  as  we  gaze  the  truth  begins  to  dawn  upon 
many  of  us  that  the  boon  of  youth  is  ours  no  longer. 
Yet,  as  we  strike  hands  to-day  in  love  and  friendship, 
we  forget 

The  strife  of  manhood  with  its  hopes  and  fears, 

The  griefs  and  trials  of  our  riper  years. 

The  sad  experience  and  the  sore  defeat, 

The  prayer  unanswered,  the  triumph  incomplete. 

Our  minds  revert  to  golden  days  of  yore, 
In  sweetest  retrospect  we  count  them  o'er, 
And  deem  each  gentle  face,  each  manly  form 
As  fair,  as  brave  as  though  unswept  by  storm  ; 
As  bright  and  beautiful  as  erst  in  youth, 
IJy  sin  unsullied,  radiant  with  truth. 

So  let  us  part  with  many  a  fond  regret, 
Hoping  to  meet  again  as  we  have  met. 
In  heaven  or  earth — what  matter  if  we  love. 
In  spirit  one— on  earth  or  realms  above." 

In  the  evening  there  was  a  Social  Reunion  which 
was  enlivened  by  the  Hanover  Brass  Band  and  made 
edifying  and  interesting  by  divers  addresses  of  distin- 
guished Alumni. 

In  1887  there  were  four  graduates  with  another 
Alumni  Oration.  As  it  may  interest  some  to  see  a 
specimen  programme  I  will  venture  to  print  the  follow- 
ing: 

Graduating  Exercises,  June  17,  1887,  at  10  a.m. 

Salutatory — "Aims,"  ....         Ernest  Alonzo  Thomas 

Reading — "Piece  of  Calico,"         ....  Viola  Mav  Bryant 


140  HISTORY    OF   HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

Duet —  ....  Misses  M.  A.  Farrar  and  A.  N.  Little 

Reading — "The  Engineer's  Murder,"  ...  L.  P.  Rose 

Class  History — "For,  Four,  Forth,"  .        .  Annie  Niles  Little 

Latin  Essay — "Lingua  et  Scientia,"  .        .       Mabel  Allen  Farrar 

Reading — "The  Old  Surgeon's  Story,"       .         .         .  L  M.  Fernald 

Valedictory — "Education  and  Learning,"  .  Mary  Ellen  Curtis 

Presentation  of  Diplomas. 

Dinner — Basket  Collation. 


x\lumni  Oration  and  Addresses,  at  2  p.m. 

"Education  of  To-Day." 

FLAVEL  S.  THOMAS,  M.S. 

OF  Hanson,  Mass. 
Social  Reunion  at  8  p.m 
Reading  and  Vocal  Music. 

The  next  year  the  graduating  exercises  were  held  in 
the  evening.  There  were  three  graduates,  Viola  May 
Bryant,  Mary  Ellen  McCarthy,  Nettie  May  Chandler, 
but  no  Alumni  Oration.  I  know  of  no  other  printed 
graduation  programme  (though  there  may  have  been 
others)  save  that  of  1891,  the  last  year  but  one  of  the 
Academy's  existence. 

After  leaving  Hanover,  Mr.  Brett  taught  as  Principal 
in  the  Avery  Grammar  School  at  Highlandville,  in 
Needham,  for  three  and  a  half  years,  and  then  took 
charo-e  of  a  new  laro:e  Grammar  School  in  Braintree  for 
some  four  years,  when  he  resigned  to  enter  upon  the 
practice  of  medicine  in  South  Braintree,  having  obtained 
in  1894  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  the  college  of  Phy- 
sicians and  Surgeons  in  Boston.  While  teaching  in 
Braintree  he  was  for  several  Winters  a  sub-master  of 
the  Brockton  Evening  High  School.  He  has  also  since 
served  on  the  School  Committee  of  Braintree. 

At  his  graduation  from  the  Medical  School,  the 
Trustees  appointed  him    lecturer  on  the  faculty,  and  he 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  I4I 

has  since  held  continuously  the  chair  of  Bacteriology  in 
that  Institution.  Much  of  his  success  in  life  he  ''at- 
tributes to  the  healthy  stimulus  of  the  vigorous  young 
minds  with  whom  he  was  so  pleasantly  brought  in  con- 
tact during  the  six  long-to-be-remembered  years  in 
Hanover  Academy." 

The  following  is  mainly  a  memory  list  of  new  names, 
as  given  principally  by  Mr.  Brett. 

Lena  B.  Allen,  Lottie  W.  Brownville,  Viola  M. 
Bryant,  Edward  C.  Bowers,  Florence  M.  Barnard, 
Bertha  L.  Buttrick,  Edward  K.  Bacon,  Charles  D. 
Bonney,  Clarence  E.  Barnard,  William  Curtis,  Edgar 
Chandler,  Ellen  F.  Cox,  Hattie  M.  Chandler,  Henrietta 
Collamore,  Nellie  D.  Collamore,  Mary  E.  Curtis,  Nettie 
N.  Chandler,  Joseph  M.  Christy,  Ellen  B.  Curtis,  Percy 
Damon,  Harry  Damon,  Jennie  Drew,  Edwin  Damon, 
Elwin  Damon,  Alice  Dow,  Emma  Dame,  Edward  R. 
Flavell,  Mabel  A.  Farrar,  Ida  M.  Fernald,  Ella  R. 
Flavell,  Lillian  C.  Flavell,  Edgar  C.  Gardner,  Henry 
Gardner,  Nellie  N.  Howland,  Samuel  W.  Hollis,  Grace 
F.  Hatch,  Marcellus  Hatch,  Walter  R.  Hatch,  Annie 
A.  Howland,  Oliver  Hatch,  Hiram  H.  Howland,  Albert 
C.  Joyce,,  John  F.  Kirby,  John  Kalua,  Annie  N.  Little, 
Everett  S.  Lawrence,  Lacie  B.  Magoun,  William  Mer- 
ritt,  Lucy  J.  McFarlen,  Mary  E.  McCarthy,  Arthur 
Magoun,  Sadie  F.  Merritt,  Annie  Mann,  William  Pratt, 
George  T.  Reeves,  Elizabeth  P.  Rose,  P'rederic  S. 
Smith,  Sarah  E.  Snell,  Delia  A.  Studley,  Nellie  Sim- 
mons, Fannie  W.  Stetson,  Flora  E,  Smith,  S.  Eliza 
Snell,  P'red  S.  Smith,  Mertie  C.  Simmons,  William  W- 
Sylvester,  William  Turner,  Nellie  Tower,  Jennie  Tower, 
Henry  Tolman,  Sadie  E.  Tolman,  P>nest  A.  Thomas, 
Herbert    C.   Tolman,    Burton    L.     Thomas,    Emma    vS. 


142  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER  ACADEMY. 

Thayer,  Maria  W.  Tolman,  Joseph  Tolman,  Thomas  E. 
Waterman,  Harry  T.  Watkins,  Thomas  S.  Walker, 
George  E.  Waterman,  Alberta  White,  Osmund  F. 
White. 

Andre\v  Preston  Averill  (1888 — '89),  was  born  in 
Micldleton,  Essex  County,  July  18,  1856,  graduated  at 
Harvard,  1882,  taught  as  principal  in  the  High  School, 
in  Bolton,  in  Townsend,  and  in  the  Sawin  Academy 
and  Dowse  High  School  at  Sherborn,  which  is  his  last 
known  address.  He  was  preceptor  of  Hanover  Academy 
the  Fall  and  Winter  terms  of  1888— '89*.  His  brief 
term  of  service  here  does  not  seem  to  have  been  emi- 
nently successful.  The  school,  for  some  cause,  lacked 
interest  in  their  studies. 

In  1890  he  writes  to  his  class  Secretary,  Henry  W. 
Cunningham  of  Boston,  that  his  "life  has  been  unevent- 
ful as  a  teacher  in  the  public  schools  of  Eastern  Massa- 
chusetts." In  some  respects  his  life  has  not  been  without 
events.  Soon  after  graduation  he  married  Miss  Clara 
Ada  McKay,  in  New  York  city,  and  up  to  1895  has  had 
five  children,  the  first  of  whom  was  "  class  baby,"  that 
is,  the  first  child  of  a  member  of  the  class  born  after 
graduation,  and,  as  such,  little  '*  Charlie  Peabody  "  re- 
ceived a  cradle  from  the  class. 

Mrs.  Ellen  Josephine  (Towle)  Sweeny  (1889 — 90), 
belonging  to  a  family  of  Scotch  descent,  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Darius  and  Hannah  (Dimond)  Towle,  and  was 
born  in  N.  Danville,  N.  H.,  June  20,  1850.     When  four- 

*Under  Mr.  Averill's  administration  and  thereafter,  there  were 
but  three  school  terms  per  year,  while  hitherto  there  had  been  four. 
Mr.  Brett,  the  preceding  teacher  inaugurated  a  partial  change  by 
shortening  the  summer  term  to  seven  weeks. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  I43 

teen  years  of  age,  as  she  writes  me,  a  copy  of  *'  The 
Good  Girl  and  True  Woman  "  fell  into  her  hands,  and 
from  that  time  her  heart  was  set  upon  taking  a  course 
of  study  at  Mary  Lyon's  school.  As  a  result  of  that 
purpose  she  in  1876  graduated  from  Mt.  Holyoke  Sem- 
inary. 

Immediately  upon    graduating    she    became    Precep- 
tress of  the  Seminary  in  Doylestown,  Pa.     Subsequent- 


MRS.    SWEENY. 

ly  she  taught  in  the  West  School  of  Maiden  two  years, 
and  then  became  principal  of  the  Medfield  high  school, 
which  position  she  resigned  in  1884  to  become  the  wife 
of  Dr.  Henry  L.  Sweeny,  of  Hanover.  A  few  years  after 
she  opened  a  private  school  in  her  house  for  the  younger 
children  of  the  village,  teaching  them  largely  after  the 
kindergarten  method.  After  a  year  and  a  half  of  this 
service,  she   was   induced   to   take  the   principalship  of 


144  HISTORY  OF  HANOVER  ACADEMY. 

the  Academy,  and  held  this  office  from  April,  1889,  to 
November,  1890.  Miss  Mary  Ellen  Curtis  was  happi- 
ly chosen  by  her  as  assistant,  while  her  own  husband 
lectured  to  the  school  two  days  each  week  upon  Chem- 
istry, Geology  and  Philosophy.  Mrs.  Sweeny  was  an 
enthusiastic  teacher,  and  had  the  happy  faculty  of  inter- 
esting her  students  and  enlisting  their  sympathies  in 
the  work.  Since  making  her  home  in  Kingston,  N.  H., 
she  has  been  largely  engaged  in  church,  missionary,  and 
literary  work.  For  several  years  she  has  been  a  corre- 
spondent of  the  Exeter  Neivs  Letter.  With  restored 
health  and  pleasant  surroundings,  she  has  every  reason 
to  hope  for  many  years  of  usefulness  and  rational  en- 
joyment. During  her  academic  service  in  Hanover,  a 
commemorative  exercise  was  held,  July  10,  1889,  con- 
sisting of  a  Word  of  Greeting  by  the  assistant  teacher, 
Mary  E.  Curtis,  the  reading  of  Rev.  Mr.  Dyer's  Dedica- 
tory Address  by  Mr.  J.  G.  Knight,  singing  of  the  origi- 
nal dedicatory  hymns,  and  a  carefully  prepared  History 
of  the  Academy  by  Dr.  Henry  L.  Sweeny.  I  recollect 
also  a  Bryant  Day  celebration  as  a  most  inspiring  occa- 
sion, when  the  students  in  their  performances  showed  a 
fine  appreciation  of  Nature's  great  poet. 

Miss  Evangeline  Hathaway  (1890 — 92),  daughter  of 
Rev.  James  Hathaway,  was  born  in  Jackson,  Me.,  Jan. 
21,  1869,  but  spent  her  earliest  years  in  Bangor.  She 
was  fitted  for  college  in  a  private  school  at  Portland, 
was  graduated  from  Wellesley  in  1890,  began  teaching 
at  the  Academy  the  winter  term  of  1890,  and  ended 
June  24,  1892.  In  a  letter  received  from  her  she  says  : 
"  The  Academy  always  will  be  dear  to  me  because  it 
was  my  first  school,  and  because  I  feel  that  I  came  into 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADFMY 


45 


closer  sympathy  with  my  students  than  I  have  ever 
clone  since."  After  leaving  Hanover  she  became  for 
two  years  principal  of  the  Somerset  High  School,  and 
then  went  abroad  for  a  year  and  studied  at  Oxford, 
England.  After  her  return  she  taught  for  a  time  in 
New  Bedford,  and  subsequently  in  Boston  in  Volkemann 
Preparatory  School  for  Boys.  Her  present  address  is 
Woodfords,  Me.      I    think   Miss   H.  gave  several  public 


MISS    EVANGELINE    HATHAWAY. 

entertainments  in  the  Academy,  but  the  one  I  most  dis- 
tinctly recollect  was  given  in  the  Odd  Fellows  Hall  the 
evening  of  June  20,  1892,  and  consisted  in  the  per- 
formance of  a  Farce,  "Wanted  —  A  Male  Cook," 
and  a  Play  called  a  **  Rainy  Evening,"  written  by  Mrs. 
Dr.  French  of  Hanover;  the  proceeds  of  which  en- 
tertainment were  to  be  devoted  to  repairs  for  the 
Academy. 


146  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

The  following  named  misses  took  part  in  the  play  : 
Ella  Groce,  Lottie  and  Annie  Whiting,  Florence  Barker, 
Annie  Bryant,  Bertha  Hatch,  Lottie  Turner,  Lucy 
Litchfield,  Edith  Waterman.  The  performers  of  the 
Farce  were  Chester  Turner,  Byron  Merrill,  Ernest 
Howard,  and  Newton  Litchfield. 

The  last  graduating  exercises  of  Hanover  Academy 
took  place  on  the  evening  of  June  26,  1891,  in  Odd 
Fellows  Hall.  The  two  graduates,  Mary  Ellen  Clapp 
and  Bertha  Louise  Buttrick,  both  of  Norwell,  had  for 
their  class  motto:  "Onward  and  Upward."  The  princi- 
pal exercises  of  the  occasion  consisted  in  Singing,  by 
Miss  Bertha  Barker,  an  invited  guest  from  Wellesley, 
and  by  Mr.  John  E.  Burgess;  Reading  by  Miss  Florence 
Barker  ;  Recitation  by  Rudolph  W.  Sweeny  and  James 
C.  Waterman;  and  Essays  by  Misses  Clapp  and  But- 
trick,  the  respective  subjects  of  which  were:  "Life,  its 
Successes  and  Failures,"  and,  "Moral  and  L'ltellectual 
Development.",  Diplomas  were  presented  by  Rev.  D. 
B.  Ford,  and  prayer  was  offered  and  benediction  pro- 
nounced by  Rey.  F.  S.  Harraden,  Rector  of  St.  Andrew's 
Church. 

We  here  subjoin  a  list  of  names  (not  hitherto  men- 
tioned) of  those  who  attended  school  during  the  last 
years  of  the  Academy's  life,  and  more  especially  during 
the  administration  of  the  two  last-named  teachers. 

Florence  S.  Barker,  Lucy  Barrieau,  Annie  Bryant, 
Mary  E.  Clapp,  Catherine  Christy,  Fred  Capel,  Anna 
M.  Davenport,  Nettie  Damon,  Charles  Gassett,  Fred 
Gillett,  Edward  Goodrich,  Ella  B.  Groce,  Parker  Hill, 
Oliver  Hatch,  Charles  Howland,  Ernest  Howard, 
Joseph  R.  Hatch,  Hester  Howland,  Bertha  J.  Hatch, 
Mabel    M.    Howland,    Hattie   Johnson,    Teresa    Kent, 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  I47 

Newton  Litchfield,  Harvey  LeFurgy,  Lucy  E.  Litch- 
field, Ida  Lord,  Louis  McMillan,  Byron  H.  Merrill, 
Essie  Magoun,  Rudolph  W.  Sweeny,  Francis  B.  Syl- 
vester, Lottie  F.  Turner,  Lucy  Turner,  Elliot  Turner, 
Charles  Torrance,  Chester  W.  Turner,  James  C. 
Waterman,  Bessie  Wild,  Ellen  Wild,  Edith  Waterman, 
Mildred  Waterman,  Lottie  Whiting,  Annie  Whiting, 
Maud  Whiting,  John  Whyman,  William  Whyman. 


PART  IV. 
MISCELLANEA. 


For  the  sake  of  convenient  reference  we  give  here  a 
list  of  the  Academy  Teachers  with  approximate  dates 
of  their  teachino-. 


Rev.  Cal\ 

Zephaniah  a.  Bates     .     . 
Horace  H.  Rolfe     .     . 
Rev.  Cyrus  Holme.s 
Ethan  Allen        .     .     . 
Rev.  Calvln  Wolcott 
John  P.  Washburn  .     , 
Dr.  Ira  Warren  .     .     , 
Thomas  F.  Whtie    . 
Herman  Bourn     .     . 
Hannah  W.  Johnson 


IN  Chaddock      I 808- 1 

1828 

1829 

1830 

1S30 

1831 

1S32 

>S33 
1S34-7 
1837-8 


18' 


Josiah  Fuller  and  Sm.ster  1838-9 
Rev.  Cyrus  Holmes  .  18408 
Mary  F.  Taggard  .  .  1847-51 
Charles  Hitchcock  .  1848-9 
George  T.  Wolco  rr  .  .  1849 
Martin  P.  McLauthlin  1850-4 
George  Conaxt  and  Wife,  1854-5 
Frederic  O.  Harstow        1855-6 


Charles  A.  Reed 
Samuel  G.  Stone 
Peleg  T.  Keene    .     . 
Arthur  S.  Lake   .     . 
Isaiah  Dole     .     .     . 
John  P.  Apthorp 
Peter  L.  Woodhury 
Ebenezer  B.  Gay 
John  P.  Thorndykk  . 
Josephine  McRoy 
J.vMES  W.  McDonald 
Roland  H.vmmond    . 
Rev.  T.  I).  P.  Stone  . 
John  G.  Knight 
Frank  W.  Urett 
Andrew  P.  Averill 
Ellen  J.  Sweeny  .     . 


1856-60 
1860-1 
T861-4 
1864-5 

•  1S65 
1865-6 
1866-7 

.  1867 
1867-8 

1869-70 
1870-1 

.  1871 

1871-5 

1875-82 

1S82-8 

1888-9 

1889-90 


Evangeline  Hathaway     1890-: 


Of  the  above  teachers  the  following  were  College  or 
Seminary  graduates  : 

From  Dartmouth:  Calvin  Chaddock,  H.  H.  Rolfe, 
Peter  L.  Woodbury,  A.  S.  Lake,  Charles  Hitchcock.* 


*Mr.  Holmes,  though  not  a  graduate,  was  a  student  for  some 
time  at  Dartmouth,  and  his  daughter  has  in  her  possession  letters 
written  to  him  b\'  his  distinguished  classmate,  Hon.  Salmon  P. 
■Chase,  who  graduated  in  182(>. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  1 49 

From  Brown  University:  Ethan  Allen,  Herman 
Bourn,  George  T.  Wolcott,  Frederic  O.  Barstow. 

From  Amherst  :  T.  D.  P.  Stone,  J.  P.  Apthorp,  Chas. 
A.  Reed,  S.  G.  Stone. 

From  Harvard :   Zephaniah   A.  Bates,  A.  P.   Averill. 

From  Bozvdoin:  Isaiah  Dole,  J.  W.  McDonald. 

From  Tnfts  :     Roland  Hammond. 

From  Phillips  Andover  Academy:  Calvin  Wolcott, 
M.  P.   McLauthlin. 

From   Wesleyan  University:  J.  G.  Knight. 

From  Mi.  Holyoke  :  Ellen  J.   Sweeny. 

From   Wellesley  :  Evangeline  Hathaway. 

From     Framingham    Normal  School :  Josephine  Mc- 

Roy. 

From  Bridgewater  Normal  School :  F.  W.  Brett. 

ACADEMY    TRUSTEES,     1 828. 

Alexander  Wood,  Horatio  Gushing,  John  B.  Barstow, 
Col.  Samuel  Tolman,  Jr.,  and  Horace  Collamore. 

ACADEMY    TRUSTEES,    1852— 61. 

Samuel  Salmond,  Rev.  Samuel  Cutler,  Rev.  Abel  G. 
Duncan,  Dr.  Alfred  C.  Garratt,  Seth  Barker,  Capt. 
Elijah  Barstow,  Robert  Sylvester,  Melzar  Hatch,  Isaac 
H.  Haskins,  Rev.  Joel  Mann,  Stephen  Josselyn,  Rev. 
Joseph  Freeman,  Rev.  James  Aiken,  Thomas  H.  C. 
Barstow. 

ACADEMY   DIRECTORS  (subsequent  to  incorporation). 

Rev.  Samuel  Cutler,  Rev.  Joseph  Freeman,  Elijah 
Barstow,  Isaac  H.  Haskins,  Lemuel  C.  Waterman,  T. 
H.  C.  Barstow,  Nathaniel  Barstow,  Edward  F.  Wood, 
Dr.  Woodbridge  R.  Howes,  Benjamin  B.  Torrey,  Isaac 
M.  Wilder,  Edmund  O.  Sylvester,  Warren  Wright,  Rev. 


ISO 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 


Dr.  William  H.  Brooks,  Rudolphus  C.  Waterman,  D.  B. 
Ford,  Rev.  Frank  S.  Harraden,J.  Williams  Beal,  Joseph 
S.  Sylvester.  (Several  of  these  have  also  served  as  clerks 
and  as  treasurers). 

Three  of  the  above  enumerated  Directors,  Messrs. 
Cutler,  Brooks  and  Ford  have  served  as  Presidents  of 
the  Board,  said  Board  ever  consisting  of  six  members 
elected  by  the  Proprietors. 


REV.    SAMUEL    CUTLER 


No  history  of  Hanover  Academy  can  pass  over  in 
silence  the  name  of  Rev.  Samuel  Cutler,  who  for  a 
score  of  years  served  as  President  of  the  Board.  He 
was  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Lydia  (Prout)  Cutler,  and 
was  born  in  Newburyport,  May  12,  1805,  and  in  early 
life  was  engaged  in  business  in  Portland,  Me.,  and  in 
Boston.  In  1836,  at  the  age  of  29,  he  began  to  prepare 
for  the    ministry,  and   was    settled   over    St.    Andrew's 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  I5I 

Church  at  Hanover  Corners  for  some  thirty  years,  from 
Nov.,  1841,  to  March,  1872.  He  then  removed  to  Bos- 
ton where  he  died  July  17,  1880.  His  remains  now  rest 
in  our  Hanover  Cemetery. 

During  his  stay  in  Hanover  occurred  the  great  trouble 
and  sorrow  of  the  nation's  life  in  its  civil  war,  and  also 
the  very  serious  trouble  in  the  life  of  the  Academy, 
whose  interests  ever  lay  closely  on  his  mind  and  heart, 
and  to  whose  welfare  he  gave  in  unstinted  measure  his 
time  and  thought  and  care.  Mr.  Cutler  was  a  man  in 
whose  character  and  conduct  there  was  nothing  light  or 
frivolous.  Life,  right,  and  dut)^  were  with  him  very 
serious  matters.  While  always  polite  and  affable,  he,  I 
think,  never  could  have  been  jovial  in  society  or  as  a 
companion.  His  regard  for  real  attainments  and  solid 
worth  made  him  averse  to  all  pretence  and  show  and  in- 
sincerity. From  a  course  which  seemed  right  to  his 
conscientious  convictions  nothing  could  deter  him  or 
turn  him  aside.  Evidence  of  this  may  be  seen  in  the 
partial  change  of  his  ecclesiastical  relations  which  in 
his  later  years  he  felt  it  his  duty  to  make,  yet  at  a  cost 
whose  greatness  cannot  easily  be  imagined. 

Amid  his  multifarious  labors  he  found  time  to  write 
a  number  of  small  volumes,  several  of  which,  were  pub- 
lished by  the  American  Tract  Society.  Perhaps  the 
most  noted  of  these  is  the  one  entitled  "The  Name 
above  Every  Name." 

The  above  portrait  of  Rev.  Air.  Cutler  was  paid  for  by 
the  Dorcas  Society  of  St.  Andrew's  Church. 

Another  revered  and  greatly  beloved  name,  which 
Hanover  and  its  Academy  will  ever  delight  to  honor,  is 
that    of    Rev.  William  Henry  Brooks,  S.  T.  D.     He 


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was  born  in  Baltimore,  Jan.  ii,  1831.  After  graduat- 
ing from  the  Episcopal  Theological  Seminary  in  Va.  he 
was  ordained  in  the  historic  Christ  Church  in  Alex- 
andria of  which  Washington  had  been  Vestryman.  He 
served  in  the  pastorates  of  Newark,  Del.,  Lenox,  Mass., 
Brockport,  N.  Y.,  Plymouth  and  Webster,  and  then 
came  to  Hanover  as  Rev.  Mr.  Cutler's  successor  in  the 
Spring  of  1872.     Here  he  remained  until   the    Autumn 


REV.    WILLIAM    HENRY    BROOKS. 


of  1888  when  he  removed  to  Boston.  He  is  now  and 
has  been  for  some  34  years  the  honored  Secretary  of  the 
Mass.  Diocesan  Convention.  For  some  16  years  he 
served  a,s  President  of  the  Academy  Board  of  Direc- 
tors and  to  this  service  gave  much  of  time  and  thought. 
Dr.  Brooks  was  deservedly  popular  with  his  fellow  citi- 
zens, being  highly  esteemed  both  for   his    solid    attain- 


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ments  and  his  social  qualities.  More  than  once  he  was 
chosen  representative  to  our  State  Legislature.  Though 
he  may  be  called  a  Southerner  by  birth  and  ties  of  kin- 
dred, he  was  always  a  Union  man,  and  he  took  especial 
interest  in  the  raising  of  the  soldiers'  monument;  and 
perhaps  the  proudest  day  of  his  life  was  when  he  served 
as  President  of  the  Day  at  its  dedication.  The  pam- 
phlet which  he  subsequently  prepared,  giving  a  full  ac- 
count of  the  interesting  exercises  of  that  occasion,  is 
itself  a  worthy  monument  of  his  devotion  to  the  high- 
est interests  of  his  town  and  country. 

Alumni   who  have  studied  Medicine. 

Joseph  E.  Corlew,  Daniel  C.  Otis,  Francis  Collamore, 
George  A.  Collamore,  Joshua  James  Ellis,  Frederic  O. 
Barstovv,  Flavel  S.  Thomas,  Marcus  Ames,  Charles  P. 
French,  Clarence  L.  Howes,  Henry  L.  Sweeny,  Benja- 
min P.  Rarstow,  L.  Vernon  Briggs.* 

Joseph  E.  Corlew,  while  attending  the  Academy, 
lived  with  his  parents  in  the  "Wild  Cat"  district  of  So. 
Scituate,  near  Studley  Hill,  in  a  house  which  is  now  torn 
down.  He  obtained  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  Harvard 
University  in  1842  and  practised  first  in  Wiscasset,  Me. 
then  in  Millbury,  Mass.,  and  finally  in  So.  Weymouth, 
where  he  died  in  1864.  Some  of  his  Academy  school- 
mates who  were  most  intimately  acquainted  with  him, 
deemed  him  a  man  of  ready,  popular,  and  almost  bril- 
liant talents.  His  son,  Joseph  T.  Corlew,  is  also  one  of 
our  Academy  Alumni  and  has  taught  in  our  public 
schools. 

*This  and  other  lists  which  follow  have  reference  mainly  to  the 
later  history  of  the  Academy. 


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Daniel  C.  Otis,  was  born  in  So.  Scituate  in  1826, 
studied  in  Hanover  Academy  under  Mr.  Holmes,  and 
subsequently  at  the  Tremont  Medical  School.  Boston. 
After  obtaining  his  diploma  he  settled  in  Providence 
and  died  there  at  the  age  of  32.      He  was  never  married. 

Francis  Collamoke, 
son  of  Horace  and  Laura 
(Briggs)  Col  lam  ore,  and  a 
descendant  of  the  distin- 
guished Dr.  Jeremiah  Hall, 
was  born  in  N.  Pembroke, 
Dec.  7,  1825.  After  leav- 
ing the  Academy  and 
teaching  for  a  time,  he  be- 
gan the  study  of  medicine 
with  his  uncle,  Dr.  An- 
thony Collamore,  and  in 
1847  graduated  from  the 
medical  department  of 
Dartmouth  College.  His 
subsequent  life  has  been 
spent  in  his  native  town 
where  he  has  practised  his  profession  and  also  has  filled 
many  important  town  offices,  having  been  town-clerk  for 
twelve  years, a  member  of  the  School  Committee  for  ov- 
er thirty  years,  also  Town  Treasurer,  and  Treasurer  of 
the  Marshfield  Agricultural  Society.  He  has  also  had 
much  to  do  in  the  settling  of  estates.  In  1881  he  was  a 
member  of  the  State  Legislature.  Probably  no  one  in 
Pembroke  is  better  versed  in  its  history  than  he,  and  his 
historical  writings  should  erelong  be  made  to  see  the 
light  of  day.  It  is  an  interesting  circumstance  that  his 
father  before  him  was  also  an  Academy  student,  a  pupil 
of  "Parson  Chaddock." 


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HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  155 

We  may  add  that  a  daughter  of  his,  Fiorina  M.  Colla- 
more,  one  of  our  Academy  girjs,  has  likewise  served 
several  years  as  a  member  of  the  School  Committee  in 
Pembroke. 

In  this  connection  I  may  speak  of  Leandek  Colla- 
MORE,  a  brother  of  Dr.  Francis  Collamore,  who  studied 
at  the  Academy  under  Mr.  Holmes,  and  at  Phillips  Exe- 
ter Academy,  and  was  graduated  at  Dartmouth  College 
in  1856.  It  is  my  impression  that  he  had  the  law  in 
view,  but  in  the  exciting  times  of  the  Kansas  crusade 
and  "  border  ruffianism  "  he  went  to  Lawrence,  and  after 
residing  there  some  eighteen  months,  died  on  Sept.  9, 
1859,  aged  26  years. 

It  is  an  interesting  circumstance  that  a  cousin  of  his, 
George  W.  Collamore,  for  a  time  Mayor  of  Lawrence, 
was  smothered  to  death  in  his  own  well  wherein  his  wife 
concealed  him  during  the  raid  led  on  by  Quantrell,  who 
searched  the  premises  for  him  in  vain,  but  set  his  house 
on  fire. 

George  A.  Collamore,  son  of  Dr.  Anthony  and 
Caroline  (Hatch)  Collamore,  was  born  in  Pembroke, 
November  9,  1833,  graduated  from  Dartmouth  in  1854, 
tauo-ht  in  Virofinia,  studied  medicine  at  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege  and  Harvard  University  Medical  School,  graduatmg 
from  this  last  mentioned  school  in  1859.  He  served  as 
surgeon  in  our  Civil  War,  and  is  now  a  practising  physi- 
cian in  Toledo,  Ohio.  I  may  state  that  several  sisters 
of  his  have  attended  the  Academy,  the  names  of  whom 
are  given  under  the  head  of  school  teachers.  The 
Academy  has  always  been  remarkably  well  patronized 
by  the  Collamore  families  of  North  Pembroke. 

Joshua  James  Ellis  was  born  in  Boston,  September 
13,  1826,  but  while  an  Academy    student    he    made  his 


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home  in  North  Marshfield  at  the  house  of  a  relative, 
Daniel  Phillips,  Esq.  H-e  was  a  bright  and  good-looking 
boy,  and  must  in  very  early  life  have  often  been  placed 
upon  a  table  or  other  platform  to  speak  his  little  pieces 
— so  self-possessed  and  so  pleasing  was  he  as  a  speaker  in 
our  Academy  days  and  in  after  years.  He  was  gradu- 
ated at  Brown  University  in  1847,  and  at  Harvard 
Medical  school  in  1852.  In  1847—8,  he  taught  a  pri- 
vate school  in  Newport,  R  I.,  where  he  married,  in 
1852,  a  daughter  of  Rev.  Dr.  John  O.  Choules.  After 
practising  as  a  physician  in  Bristol,  R.  I.,  1854 — 62,  he 
became  assistant  surgeon  in  Mass.  Volunteers,  1862 — 63. 
He  died  at  Newport,  March  17,  1863. 

Flavel      Shurtleff 
Thomas  was  born  in  Han- 
son,   September  7,    1852, 
and  on   leaving  its    town 
schools    studied    at    Han- 
over   Academy,     Phillips 
Andover   Academy,   Har- 
vard University,  and  about 
a  dozen  other  of  the  high- 
er institutions  of  our  land. 
He    obtained    his    M.    D. 
from     Harvard     in     1874, 
and  after  practising  a  few 
months  in  Ithaca,  N.  Y., 
he    returned   to    Hanson, 
where  he  has  resided  ever 
FLAVELL  SHURTLEFF  THOMAS.       siucc.   lu  1 879  hc  married 
Caroline  M.  Smith,  and  has  two  children,  Perry  Shurtleff 
and  Saba    Drew.      In    1892    he    received  the  degree  of 
L.L.  D.  from  Shurtleft  College. 


To  enumerate  all  the 


HISTORY  OF  HANOVER  ACADEMV.  I  57 

works  he  has  written  and  all  the  honorary  titles  he  has 
received  would,  I  think,  even  in  diamond  type,  more 
than  fill  up  one  of  these  pages,  and  hence,  for  a  full 
account  of  these  things  and  of  the  offices  he  has  filled, 
we  must  refer  our  readers  to  his  biography,  which  is 
found  in  the  '*  History  of  Plymouth  County,"  and  in  the 
Plymouth  County  *'  Biographical  Review."  Of  our 
Academic  students  we  may  say  that  many  have  done 
nobly,  but  thou,  at  least  in  certain  lines,  hast  excelled 
them  all. 

Charles  P.  French,  son  of  Dr.  John  O.  French,  for- 
merly a  practising  physician  in  this  village,  studied  at 
the  Dartmouth  Medical  school,  and  was  settled  ni  Dux- 
bury,  Truro  and  Pembroke,  but  is  now  retired  from 
practice. 

Clarence  L.  Howes,  son  of  Dr.  Woodbridire  R. 
Howes,  who  was  for  many  years  a  popular  and  success- 
ful physician  in  this  place*  was  born  at  Mattapoisett, 
March  24,  ICS48,  fitted  for  college  in  our  Academy  under 
Mr.  Lake,  and  graduated  from  Amherst  in  1869.  After 
teaching  in  Pembroke,  in  Spencertown  Academy,  Aus- 
terlitz,  N.  V.,  and  in  the  High  School  of  Rockland,  he 
entered  the  Institute  of  Technolog)-  in  Boston,  and 
graduated  therefrom  in  1873  with  the  degree  of  B.  S. 
He  then  engaged  in  civil  engineering  and  surveying  till 
1876,  when  he  began  the  study  of  medicine  and  at 
the  same  time  taught  for  one  year  in  the  P^liot  Gram- 
mar and  Boston  Latin  schools.  Afterward  he  attended 
medical  lectures  at  Dartmouth  colleoe  and  at  the  Lono^ 
Island  College  Hospital,  where,  in  1878,  he  received  the 
degree  of  M.  D.  In  the  same  year,  October  3,  he  was 
married  to  Mary  O.  Hapgood  of  Worcester,  and  since 
then  has  resided  in  Hanover.    He  has  had  two  children, 


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a  son  and  a  daughter — the  latter  alone  surviving.  For 
nearly  a  score  of  years  he  has  served  as  Chairman  of 
the  School  Committee. 

_^ ,         Henry  L.  Sweeny,  the 

eldest  son  of  Edward  M. 
and  Lucy  (Thaxter)  Swee- 
ny, was  born  in  Bridge- 
water,  Apr.  3,  1858.  At 
an  early  age  his  parents 
moved  to  Hanson  near  the 
tack  manufactory  of  Ezra 
Phillips  and  Sons,  in 
whose  employ  his  father 
has  been  connected  from 
that  time  to  the  present. 
In  1870  they  again  moved 
to  the  George  Curtis  place 
in  Hanover  where  ihey 
still  reside.  On  the  open- 
HENRY  L.  SWEENY.  iug  of  thc  railroad  to  Hau- 

over  Corners  in  1868  he  began  to  attend  the  Academy 
and  continued  there  under  the  tuition  of  Miss  McRoy, 
Mr.  McDonald  and  Rev.  Mr.  Stone.  In  the  last  year  of 
his  attendance  he  served  as  Mr.  Stone's  assistant.  In 
January,  1875,  he  entered  Adams  Academy  at  Quincy 
and  graduated  there  in  1878.  Soon  after  entering  Har- 
vard College  he  was  obliged  to  leave  on  account  of  poor 
health.  In  1879  he  entered  the  Harvard  Medical 
School  from  which  he  graduated  in  1882.  He  first  be- 
gan to  practise  in  Kingston  N.  H.^for  a  short  time,  then 
for  about  a  year  in  the  city  of  Boston,  after  which,  in 
1883,  he  came  to  Hanover,  taking  for  the  first  winter 
the  practice  of  the  late  Dr.  John    O.   French    while  the 


HISTORY   OF  HANOVER    ACADEMY. 


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latter  was  in  Florida.  He  remained  in  Hanover  until 
1890  when  he  returned  to  Kingston,  N.  H.,  where  he 
still  resides.  Dr.  Sweeny  has  served  as  member  of  the 
School  Board  and  as  Town  Clerk,  for  three  years  each, 
is  now  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  a  member  of  the  local 
Board  of  Health,  and  County  physician  for  Rockingham 
County.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  New  Hampshire 
Medical  Society,  the  New  Hampshire  Associated  Boards 
of  Health,  and  of  the  American  Medical  Association. 

In  1884  Dr.  Sweeny,  as  we  have  already  stated,  mar- 
ried Ellen  Josephine  Towle,  who  afterwards  became 
Principal  of  Hanover  Academy,  and  during  her  term  of 
service  he  was  assistant  in  the  school.  Thus  at  two 
different  periods  he  has  served    'as   assistant    teacher  in 

the  Academy  "in  which 
he  has  passed  many 
pleasant  and  happy  days, 
and  nonecotdd  regret  the 
piassing  away  of  the  old 
institution  more  than 
he." 

Benjamin  Parker 
Barstou',  was  born  in 
Duxbury,  Aug.  31,  i860, 
entered  Hanover  Acad- 
emy in  1876  and  gradu- 
ated from  Boston  Univer- 
sity School  of  Medicine 
June,  1882.  He  was  first 
settled  in  Exeter,  N.  H., 

BENJAMIN    PARKER    BARSTOW.  aud       lU        I884      CaUlC        tO 

Kingston  where  he  has  lived  and  practised  ever  since. 
His    practice,    I    believe,    is    after    the     Homoeopathic 


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HISTORY    OF  HANOVER    ACADEMY. 


method.      In  June,  i88s,  he  married  Helen  B.  Steele  of 
Epsom,  N.  H.,  and  has  two  children. 


We  may  state  that  Mr. 
L.  Vernon  Briggs,  who 
amid  multifarious  cares 
and  duties  has  for  some 
years  past  paid  consider- 
able attention  to  the  heal- 
ing art,  is  now  taking  at 
Dartmouth  College  a 
thorough  course  of  medi- 
cal instruction.  In  Acad- 
emy matters  and  in  Town 
matters  he  has  ever  mani- 
fested a  deep  interest, 
and  his  printed  volumes 
of  Ship-building  Records, 
of  Church  Records,  of 
L.  VERNON  BRIGGS.  Ccmctcry     Records,   and 

of  Town  Records,  are  a  monument  to  his  indefatigable 
industry  and  j^ublic  spirit.  For  many  years  he  was 
President  of  our  Alumni  Association.  For  the  many 
other  offices  he  has  held  or  still  holds,  the  reader 
is  referred  to  his  "Church  and  Cemetery  Records," 
PP-   54»   55- 


Our  readers  must  be  given  to  understand  that  in  some 
of  the  above  biographical  notices  we  have  not  told  and 
could  not  bear  to  tell  the  whole  truth.  From  more  than 
one  instance  of  a  seriously  marred  life  comes  espe- 
cially the  solemn  warning  not  to  touch,  nor  taste,  nor 
handle. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  l6l 

Alumni  who   have  Become  Lawyers. 

George  M.  Reed,  Franklin  E.  Felton,  Charles  Hitch- 
cock, Edward  G.  Stetson,  Charles  F.  Phillips,  John  S. 
Crosby,  William  P.  Duncan,  Walter  R.  Torrey. 

Geo.  Milton  Reed,  brother  of  the  teacher,  Charles 
A.  Reed,  was  born  in  Weymouth,  Jan.  8,  1840,  fitted  for 
college  in  Weymouth  and  Hanover,  graduated  from 
Amherst  in  1862,  taught  school  in  1862 — 3,  and  then 
studied  in  the  Harvard  Law  School.  He  resides  in 
Boston,  and  since  1871  has  been  Law  reporter  of  de- 
cisions of  the  Courts  for  the  Boston  Daily  Advertiser. 

Franklin  PZliot  Felton,  half  brother  of  President 
Felton  of  Harvard  College,  was  graduated  from  Hnr- 
vard  in  185  i,  was  subsequently  made  A.  M.  without  fur- 
ther study,  and  in  1853  received  the  degree  of  LL.  B. 
His  last  known  address  was  Baltimore,  Maryland. 

Edward  Gray  Stetson,  son  of  Rev.  Caleb  Stetson 
of  So.  Scituate,  formerly  of  Medford,  graduated  from  Cam- 
bridge College  in  1853,  and  subsequently  from  Harvard 
Law  School.  After  graduation  he  received  from  his 
college  the  degree  of  A.  M.  without  further  study,  and 
in  1868  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  P^or  nearly  30  years  past 
he  has  been  practising  law  in  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Charles  P'ollen  Phillips,  son  of  Ezra  Phillips, 
was  born  in  Hanson,  April  21,  1846,  and  died  Jan.  30, 
1885.  After  graduating  from  the  Boston  University 
Law  School,  June,  1873,  he  acted  for  a  short  time  as 
Assistant  Register  of  Probate  for  Middlesex  County 
till  his  health  failed  him.  Besides  going  to  the  South 
in  the  Winter  of  1874,  he  twice  made  a  visit  to  Europe. 


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William  Paley  Duncan,  son  of  Rev.  Abel  G.  Dun- 
can*, was  born  April  i,  1831,  studied  at  Williston  Sem- 
inarv  and  at  Amlierst  College,  spent   the   early   part  of 

his  life  in  teaching  in 
Maine,  Michigan,  and 
Massachusetts,  and  af- 
ter admission  to  the  bar 
opened  an  office  in  Bos- 
ton. He  married  Abbie 
F.  Crane,  of  Freetown, 
and  has  had  three  chil- 
dren, two  of  whom,  John 
F.  and  Payson  Williston, 
are  living.  Mr.  Duncan, 
like  his  honored  father, 
has  the  poetic  genius, 
but  ill  health  does  not 
now  allow  him  to  take 
any  lofty  or  long  flights 
WILLIAM  p.  DUNCAN  ^^ith    hls    Pcgasus.     We* 

have  already  given  a  specimen  of  his  verse  in  a  pre- 
vious page,  and  he  has  kindly  consented  to  furnish  for 
our  work  a  few  closing  lines.  Our  readers  will  find  in 
the  Pamphlet  of  the  Soldiers'  Monument,  page  82,  a 
touching  tribute  by  him  to  the  "  Unknown  "  ones  of  our 
buried  soldiers  in  the  sunnv  South. 

*Rev.  Mr.  Duncan,  a  man  of  distinguished  ability  and  genius, 
and  helper  of  all  educational  work,  was  for  many  years  an  honored 
Director  of  Hanover  Academy.  He  came  to  Hanover  Aug.,  1833, 
as  pastor  of  the  Centre  Church,  resigned  his  pastorate  April.  1854, 
and  died  in  Hanover  April  23,  1874.  For  some  six  years  he  repre- 
sented the  Town  in  our  State  Legislature  His  two  daughters, 
Laura  J.  King,  of  North  Adams,  and  Lucia  A.  Dean,  of  Taunton, 
have  both  deceased.  These  are  the  "  tall  daughters  "  whom  Miss 
Taggard  mentions  as  among  her  pupils. 


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163 


Walter  R.  Torrey  was  born  in  So.  Scitiiate,  April 
I,  1864,  studied  at  the  Academy  under  Mr.  Knight,  and 
subsequently  attended  the  Bryant  and   Stratton   school, 

and  Boston  University. 
He  studied  law  with  Judge 
Hosea  Kingman  and  at 
Boston  University  Law 
School,  was  admitted  to 
the  Bar  June,  1896,  and  is 
now  associated  with  Judge 
Kingman  in  practice.  In 
his  vocation  he  has  been 
very  successful,  and  has 
recently  won  the  most  im- 
portant cases  ever  tried  in 
Plymouth  County,  known 
as  the  ''Hull  Official  Bri- 
bery Cases."  His  princi- 
pal business  is  in  this 
County,  and  in  the  cities 
of  Boston  and  New  York.  At  present  he  is  counsel  for 
the  towns  of  Scituate  and  Hull,  and  is  interested  in  the 
management  of  several  large  trust  estates  and  corpora- 
tions. He  has  also  been  largely  engaged  in  real  estate 
and  mercantile  transactions  in  this  State  and  in  New 
Jersey.  While  his  home  is  in  Norwell,  he  has  a  sum- 
mer residence  at  North  Scituate  Beach,  a  beautiful 
place  near  the  ''  Glades,"  which  he  has  done  very  much 
to  develop,  having  built  there  himself  more  than  twenty 
houses.  In  1895  his  town  gave  him  a  majority  vote  for 
Representative.  He  confesses  to  have  amassed  already 
quite  a  fortune,  and,  if  he  keeps  on  financially  as  he  has 
begun,  he  bids  fair   to  become  our   Alumni  Rockefeller. 


\/VALTER    R.   TORREY 


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HISTORY  OF  HANOVER  ACADEMY. 


He  married    Helen  H.,  only  daughter  of  Hon.  Ebenezer 
T.  Fogg,  late  deceased,  and  has  one  son,  Wendell. 

I  may  state  that  several  of  the  Torrey  name  and 
khidred  who  were  once  members  of  our  Academy  have 
likewise  been  remarkably  successful  in  business. 

Mr.  Barry,  on  page  98  of  his  History  of  Hanover, 
makes  mention  of  Isaiah  Wing,  a  native  of  Hanover, 
who,  according  to  report,  was  one  of  Mr.  Chaddock's 
pupils  after  he  was  a  married  man.  Subsequently  he 
studied  law,  and  after  practising  here  for  a  time  moved 
to  Cincinnati,  O.,  where  he  died. 

Alumni  who  have  entered  the  Ministry. 


Marcus  Ames,  William 


REV.    MARCUS   AMES. 

lege   of    Physicians  and  S 


Henry  Stetson,  D.  B.  Ford, 
Frederic  O.  Barstow, 
George  A.  Litchfield, 
David  P.  Hatch,  Wil- 
li.'.m  C.  Litchfield, James 
C.  Church,  t^rnest  A. 
Thomas. 

Marcus  Ames,  son  of 
Azel  and  Mercy  (Hatch) 
Ames,  was  born  in 
Marshfield,  Feb.  26, 
1828,  studied  at  Phil- 
lips Andover  Academy, 
being  the  valedictorian 
of  his  class,  also  at  Wil- 
liams College,  in  Har- 
vard Medical  School, 
and  in   New  York  Col- 


urgeons,  graduating  in    1853, 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  165 

After  studying  Theology  with  Rev.  Erastiis  Dickinson, 
Colchester,  Ct.,  he  was  ordained  at  Paterson,  N.  J., 
June  28,  1854.  In  May  i,  1856,  he  was  installed  at 
Westminster,  and  was  dismissed  therefrom  June  9, 
1859.  In  1859 — '62  he  served  as  acting  pastor  at  North 
Chelsea,  now  Revere,  and  from  1862  to  1875  he  was 
Superintendent  and  Chaplain  of  the  Industrial  school 
for  girls  in  Lancaster.  In  the  years  1875 — '^^  ^^  sup- 
plied churches  in  Shirley,  Orange  and  Lancaster.  In 
1879 — 86  he  was  Chaplain  of  State  Institutions  at  Cran- 
ston, R.  I.  He  then  became  acting  pastor  at  Thomp- 
son, Ct.,  until  his  death  at  Pepperell,  Dec.  11,1887. 
He  was  married,  Oct.  15,  1853  to  Jane  A.Vanderburgh, 
Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  and  left  two  children,  Dr.  Herman  V. 
Ames,  now  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  a 
daughter,  Ella  E.  Ames,  of  Philadelphia,  one  son  hav- 
ing deceased. 

Rev.  Mr.  Ames  was  especially  interested  in  reform 
work.  An  obituary  notice  from  the  Providencey(y;/;7/<?/ 
of  Dec.  29,  1887,  states  that  *' he  had  a  tender  heart 
toward  the  criminal  classes.  While  he  abhorred  the 
crimes  they  had  committed,  he  was,  nevertheless,  a  firm 
believer  in  the  possibility  of  iheir  reformation  under  the 
inspiration  and  power  of  the  Gospel."  It  was  his  en- 
deavor to  make  Reform  schools  truly  reformatory  rather 
than  penal,  and  in  those  schools  of  which  he  had  charge 
many  wayward  ones  were  inspired  to  lead  a  better  life. 
He  was  also  greatly  interested  in  mission  work,  and 
was,  indeed,  in  early  life  appointed  missionary  physician 
to  the  Gabboon  Mission,  Africa,  but  his  wife's  health 
proving  inadequate,  the  plan  had  to  be  abandoned.  Be- 
sides his  annual  Reports  as  Superintendent  of  the 
Schools,  he  was  the  author  of  several  addresses  on  Tem- 


l66  HISTORY  OF  HANOVER  ACADEMY. 

perance  and  Reform.  In  his  theology,  he  was  strongly 
Calvinistic,  and  as  a  preacher  he  was  brilliant,  fervent 
and  impressive.  In  his  drawing  power  as  a  man  and 
speaker  he  may  be  called  magnetic.  His  obituary  closes 
with  these  words  :  "  He  was  a  broad  man  of  strong 
sympathies,  keen  perceptions  and  indomitable  will  ;  pure 
minded  and  sweet-spirited,  he  lived  to  bless  tlie  world, 
and,  dymg,  left  a  void  that  cannot  readily  be  filled." 

William  Henry  Stetson,  of  South  Scituate,  was 
born  in  Boston,  Nov.  14,  1820,  and  died  in  Providence, 
March  13,  1897.  After  leaving  the  Academy  and  teach- 
ing school  for  a  time,  he  took  a  four  years'  course  in  the 
Methodist  Biblical  Institute  at  Concord,  N.  H.  He 
spent  some  45  years  in  the  Gospel  ministry,  serving 
parishes  in  the  Norwich,  New  Bedford  and  Providence 
Districts,  which  were  regarded  as  above  the  ordinary 
rank.  In  1874 — yy  he  was  Presiding  Elder  of  the  Nor- 
wich District,  and  in  1877 — 79  of  the  New  Bedford  Dis- 
trict. In  Falmouth,  the  place  of  his  first  settlement,  he 
was  married  on  May  9,  1853,  to  Miss  Lucy  F.  Nye,  who 
with  one  son  and  three  daughters  survives  him. 

Geo.  a,  Litchfield,  a  student  of  the  Academy 
under  Mr.  Conant,  afterward  studied  for  two  years  at 
Brown  University,  leaving  there  in  1862,  when  the  war 
broke  out.  He  was  settled  over  the  Baptist  Church  in 
Winchendon  five  years  when  he  resigned  on  account  of 
ill-health  and  has  never  since  taken  a  pastorate.  When 
he,  with  his  sister  Ophelia,  attended  the  Academy,  his 
parents  lived  in  this  village,  but  while  a  student  in  Col- 
lege they  resided,  I  think,  in  Brookfield.  tlis  present 
residence  is  Wollaston. 


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REV.    D.    P.    HATCH. 


On  returning 


David  P.  Hatch  was 
born  in  "the  two-miles," 
Marshfield,  Oct.  16,  1856. 
After  studying  at  the 
Academy  he  took  the 
course  at  Phillips  Andover 
Academy,  and  subsequent- 
ly graduated  from  Am- 
herst College  in  1883,  and 
from  Hartford  Theologi- 
cal Seminary  in  1886.  He 
was  ordained  and  installed 
in  Rockland,  Me.,  July  i, 
1886,  and  remained  there 
until  May,  1895,  and  then 
took  a  three  months'  tour 
in  the  Fall  of  1895,  he  was 
Maine    Missionary    Society, 


m   ii^urope 

chosen   Secretary    of    the 

which  office  he  still  holds. 

His  present  address  is  Portland,  Me.  In  Oct.  27,  1886, 
he  married  Miss  Caroline,  daughter  of  Professor  Patton, 
of  Washington,  D.  C,  who  died  Jan.  19,  1893,  and  in 
Jan.  9,  1895  he  was  married  again  to  Miss  Cora  E. 
Johnson,  of  Williamstown,  Mass.  His  only  child,  born 
Dec.  II,  1895,  lived  but  about  two  years. 


(I  would  here  speak  a  word  as  to  the  character  and 
worth  of  Mr.  Hatch's  mother,  who  attended  the  Acade- 
my for  awhile  with  myself.  She  was  a  ladylike,  cultured 
Christian  woman,  a  woman  of  talent,  who  could  write 
poetry  or  could  write  sermons,  which  last,  however,  I 
was  not  permitted  to  see.  In  my  estimation  she  was  in 
every  way  a   superior  woman.      I  trust   that   among  our 


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IIISTORV    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY 


numerous  Alumnae,  there 
is  many  an  Almira  Little 
(previously  mentioned)  and 
many  an  Ann  S.  Dwelley, 
who  are  the  choice  ones 
of  earth  and  heaven,  and 
whose  names,  though  un- 
recorded on  the  printed 
page,  yet  deserve  to  be  no- 
ticed quite  as  much  as 
many  that  will  be  men- 
tioned in  this  work.) 

Mr.  James  C.  Church, 
of  So.  Scituate,  after 
teaching  some  time  in  our 

ANN   S,    DWELLEV  (HATCH).  j^^,^,.^     ^^^^^|^_     gj^,^,;^^     j^^ 

Canton,  N.  Y.,  to  be  a  Universalist  minister,  and  was 
first  settled  in  Maine.  Afterward  he  joined  the  Con- 
gregational denomination,  but  its  year  book  no  longer 
bears  his  name  in  the  list  of  preachers.  He  is  now  en- 
gaged in  business  in  Boston. 

William  C.  Litchfield  was  born  in  So.  Scituate, 
near  "Studley  Hill,"  March  31,  1840,  and  after  attend- 
ing the  Academy  in  1852 — 53  and  1856 — 57,  prepared 
under  private  instruction  to  enter  Meadville  Theological 
Seminary  in  1861.  The  Civil  War  breaking  out,  he 
sought  to  enlist  in  the  i8th  Mass.  Regt.,  Co.  G.,  but 
failed  to  pass  examination.  In  1864,  however,  he  enlisted 
in  Co.  E.,  1st  Heavy  Artillery,  and  served  until  the  close 
of  the  war.  During  the  years  1877 — y^  he  served  as 
Selectman,  and  in  1878 — 79  was  Representative  from 
the  District  embracing  the  towns  of  So.   Scituate,  Scit- 


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169 


uate,  and  Cohasset. 
After  reading-  Theol- 
ogy under  direction 
of  Prof.  F.  H.  Hedge, 
of  Cambridge,  he  was 
ordained  at  Hobart, 
Ind.,  in  May,  1879,  ^ 
minister  of  the  Uni- 
tarian denomination. 
His  settlements  have 
been  in  Gardner,  Ber- 
lin and  Middleboro, 
in  which  latter  place 
he  now  resides.  In 
Sept.,  1894,  a  severe 
illness  rendered  him 
unable  longer  to  as- 
sume the  duties  of  a 
REV.  WM.  c.  LITCHFIELD.  Settled     pastor.        In 

the    recent    State    election   Mr.    Litchfield   was  chosen 
Republican  Representative  from  Middleboro  for  1899. 

Ernest  A.  Thomas,  of  Marshfield  has  for  some  time 
been  supplying  the  Baptist  Church  in  Three  Rivers,  but 
I  believe  he  has  never  been  ordained.  His  present 
address  is  Roxbury  District,  Boston. 

Alumni  who,  according  to  my  recollection,  have  grad- 
uated FROM  Colleges  and  Seminaries.* 

J.  J.  Ellis,  D.  B.  Ford,  F.  O.  Barstow,  from  Brown  ; 
Geo.  M.  Reed,  C.    L.  Howes,  D.    P.    Hatch,  from    Am- 

*It  is,  of  course,  understood  that  all  the  College  graduates  men- 
tioned did  not  receive  their  entire  fitting  at  Hanover  Academy, 
though  many  did  so.  Some  certainly  studied  elsewhere,  while 
they  took  their  start  from  here. 


I/O 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER   ACADEMY. 


herst  ;  Geo.  R.  Dwelley,  Franklin  E.  Felton,  Edward 
G.  Stetson,  from  Harvard  ;  C.  Hitchcock,  George  A. 
Collamore,  Leander  Collamore,  from  Dartmouth  ;  Har- 
ry T.  Watkins  from  Colby ;  F.  S.  Thomas,  from 
Harvard  Medical  School  ;  W.  P.  Brooks,  from  Massa- 
chusetts Agricultural  College ;  Frank  Baker  and 
Charles  B.  Phillips  from  West  Point  ;  J.  W.  Beal  from 
Institute  of  Technology  ;  H.  L.  Sweeny,  from  Adams 
Academy  ;  VVm.  H.  Stetson  from  Concord  Methodist 
Biblical  Institute  ;  Edward  Southworth,  Emily  E.  Syl- 
vester, Martha  W.  Sylvester,  Grace  F.  Hatch,  Grace 
L.  Russell,  from  Bridgewater  Normal  School  ;  Emma 
Barstow,  Angela  B.  Ford,  Edith  G.  Ford,  from  Wheaton 
Female  Seminary  ;  Fiorina  M.  Collamore  from  Thayer 

Academy. 

As  many  of  the  above 
names  have  been  no- 
ticed elsewhere,  we  shall 
only  speak  of  two  or 
three   farther. 

Prof.  William  Penn 
Brooks  was  born  in  So. 
Scituate,  Nov.  19,  185 1. 
At  about  the  age  of 
fourteen  he  attended 
the  "Assinippi  Insti- 
tute," and  on  its  closing 
he  came  to  the  Acad- 
emy. After  teaching  in 
several  of  our  Hanover 
PROF.  WM.  PENN  BROOKS.  schools    and    in     Rock- 

land, he  entcre:!  the  Massachusetts  Agricultural  Col- 
lege at  Amherst,  and  graduated  therefrom  in  1875  with 
the  de<2:ree  of  B.  Sc. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  I /I 

In  the  following  year  he  was  a  post-graduate  student 
in  Chemistry,  Botany  and  the  Languages.  In  1877 — ^^ 
we  find  him  professor  of  Agriculture  in  the  Imperial 
College  of  Agriculture  in  Sapporo,  Japan,  and  for  sev- 
eral years  he  was  acting  President  of  that  college. 
Since  1889  he  has  served  as  Professor  of  Agriculture  at 
Amherst,  and  as  Agriculturalist  for  the  Hatch  Experi- 
ment Station.  One  year,  1896 — 7,  he  spent  in  Europe, 
in  travel  and  study,  and  in  the  latter  year  received  the 
degree  of  Ph.  D.  from  the  University  of  Halle- Wit- 
tenberg, Germany.  In  March  28,  1882,  he  was  married 
to  Eva  Bancroft  Hall,  and  has  two  children,  Rachel  Ban- 
croft, born  Jan.,  1884,  and  Sumner  Cushing,  born  Aug., 
1888. 

Frank  Baker,  son  of  Geo.  Martin  Baker,  of  Marsh- 
field,  graduated  at  West  Point  in  1872,  as  No.  5  in  a 
class  of  57  members.  Commissioned  as  2d  Lieut.  13th 
Regt.  of  Infantry,  Instructor  at  the  Military  Academy 
and  with  Regiments  in  Wyoming,  Louisiana,  Missis- 
sippi and  Georgia.  First  Lieut.  13th  Infantry,  Nov.  i, 
1874.  Transferred  to  Ordnance  Dept  of  the  Army  as 
1st  Lieut.,  April,  18,  1879.  Served  at  Arsenals  in  Rock 
Island,  111.,  Benicia,  Cal.,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  and  Water- 
town,  Mass.  Capt.  Ordnance  Dept.  1886,  and  now  In- 
spector of  Ordnance  U.  S.  A.,  at  Providence,  R.  I.  His 
brother  George  Baker,  has  served  for  several  years  as 
one  of  the  Selectmen  of  Marshfield,  and  was  a  member 
of  the  Legislature  in  1882. 

In  Mr.  J.  Williams  Beal  we  recognize  a  skilled 
Architect,  not  imported  from  abroad,  but  born  and  bred 
among  us.  There  was  in  his  make-up  as  a  boy  a  con- 
siderable amount  of  play,  but  any  excessiveness  of  this 


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quality  he  in  due  time  suppressed,  and  with  great  per- 
sistency of  purpose  took  a  full  course  of  technological 
instruction,  and  became  thereby  one  of  our  most  widely 
known,  accomplished  and  successful  Architects.  In 
Hanover  he  will  probably  be  best  and  longest  remem- 
bered as  the  designer  of  its  beautiful  Soldiers'  Monu- 
ment. Mr.  Real  early  took  to  himself  in  life's  partner- 
ship an  Academy  girl,  Mary  W.  Howes,  only  daughter 
of  our  long  beloved  village  physician,  Dr.  Woodbridge 
R.  Howes,  late  deceased,  and  he  is  now  blessed  with  a 
fine  family  of  children. 

Another  Academy  student  who  has  likewise  dis- 
tinguished himself  in  the  business  of  Architecture,  En- 
gineering, Surveying,  Draughting,  is  Willard  Kent, 

of  Marshfield,  who  at- 
tended the  Academy 
under  Mr.  Keene's  in- 
struction. He  has  now 
offices  at  Woonsocket 
and  at  Narragansett 
Pier,  R.  I. 

George     Russell 

DwELLEY,  after  leaving 

the  Academy,  prepared 

for  college  at   Andover, 

and      graduated      from 

Harvard         University, 

class    of     1853.     After 

teaching  a  few  years   in 

the      Rockland       High 

GEO.  R.  DWELLEY.  School   aud  many  years 

in    the    High    School    at    Watertown,   he    went    West, 

and  served  three  or  four  years  as  Bookkeeper  for  a  Cop- 


HISTORY  OF  HANOVER  ACADEMY.  I  73 

per  Mining  Company  at  Lake  Superior.  Returning  to 
Boston  he  became  Treasurer  of  the  Mechanics  Savings 
Bank,  and  was  also  appointed  as  its  receiver.  He  then 
took  up  his  school  work  in  Watertown,  and  has  served 
as  teacher  or  School  Superintendent  there  over  a  score 
of  years.     His  present  address  is  Arlington  Heights. 

We  reprint  the  following  verses  by  Mr.  Dwelley  as 
we  find  them  in  a  local  sheet  of  recent  date.  The  last 
lines,  though  true  as  a  general  thing,  do  not  wholly  do 
away  with  the  regret  which  we  feel  at  the  Academy's 
demise: 

A  TRIBUTE  TO  THE  HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

Suggested  by  the  announcement  that   tlie    Academy  building   Avas 

to  be  sold. 

In  the  v^iews  of  the  fathers  the  schoolhouse  came  next 
To  food,  clothing  and  shelter;  church,  parson  and  text. 
And  those  schools  were  the  best  in  their  scale  of  esteem, 
Which  gave  ot  sound  knowledge  the  cream  of  the  cream. 
Hence  academies  flourished;  and  each  little  town 
Had  its  Liliput  college  for  jacket  and  gown, 
Where  the  boy  could  his  faculties  freely  unfold. 
And  the  girl  bud  and  bloom  into  beauty  of  soul; 
And  where  guidance  of  masters  made  easy  of  reach 
Both  strength  for  the  spirit  and  grace  for  the  speech. 

Our  Hanover  folk,  in  their  guesses  at  truth, 

Deemed  the  best  none  too  good  for  their  innocent  youth, 

So,  with  foresight  of  students  to  come  by  the  score. 

They  built  in  their  faith  one  academy  more. 

What  a  blessing  it  was!     And  what  blessing  it  brought 

To  the  many  it  raised  to  new  levels  of  thought! 

What  friendships  it  fostered!     They  live  till  to-day 

In  that  kingdom  within  us  which  knows  not  decay  ; 

How  its  influence  grew,  as  its  graduates  spread. 

Making  life  more  worth  living,  and  death  the  less  dread  ! 


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"  Let  by-gones  be  by-gones,"  may  moralists  preach, 

r^ut  the  lesson    is  heartless  their  sermon  would  teach; 

For  there's  little  at  anchor.     Time  sweeps  most  away, 

And  change  succeeds  change  like  the  scenes  in  a  play. 

Ere  a  century  passed,  as  a  wreck  on  the  shore 

Lay  the  school  that  we  cherished — its  usefulness  o'er. 

While  we  tenderly  mourn  for  the  ''  day  that  is  dead," 

We  rejoice  that  a  brighter  has  dawned  in  its  stead  ; 

And,  with  love  for  what  has  been,  as  optimists  feel 

That  the  Hiijh  School  serves  better  the  whole  common  weal 


It  will  not,  I  trust,  be  deemed  invidious  if  I  mention 
a  few  of  our  Alumni  who  have  become  distinguished  as 
business  men  and  as  honored  and  useful  citizens. 

Samuel  Tolman,  Jr., 
Son  of  Col.  Samuel  Tol- 
man, born  in  So.  Scituate 
in  1820,  was  a  student  in 
the  Academy  with  myself, 
and  was,  indeed,  in  some 
studies  a  classmate,  espec- 
ially in  the  languages.  He 
and  Francis  Collamore, 
Daniel  C.  Otis  and  myself 
studied  Virgil  together  un- 
der Mr.  Holmes  who  kind- 
ly permitted  us  to  get  our 
lessons  in  an  ante-room  or 
lobby,  where,  by  a  division 
of  labor—  each  one  look- 
mg  out  in  the  dictionary 
the  meaning  of  different  words— we,could  thereby  make 
much  more  rapid  progress  than  when  studying  alone. 
So  enthusiastic  were  we  at  times  in  our  studies  {?)  that 
the  teacher  was  occasionally  obliged  to  repress   our  en- 


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HISTORY  OF   HANOVER  ACADEMY. 


175 


thusiasm  either  by  speaking'  to  us  or  by  having  our  door 
set  open  so  that  he  could  take  a  distant  observation. 
Mr.  Tolman  at  one  time  thought  of  going  to  college,  and 
probably  would  have  done  so  but  for  considerations  of 
health.  For  many  years  he  was  a  Selectman  in  his  na- 
tive town,  also  a  member  of  the  school  committee,  and 
an  honored  Representative  in  General  Court.  But  he  is 
perhaps  best  remembered  now  for  ''  his  active  interest 
in  whatever  pertained  to  the  welfare  and  comfort  of 
the  brave  men  who  went  forth  from  that  town  to  suffer 
and  die  that  the  Union  might  be  preserved."  I  may  add 
that  the  above  portrait  of  Mr.  Tolman  was  paid  for  by 
the  Sabbath  school  of  the  Congregational  church  at 
Hanover  Corners,  of  which  school  he  was  for  a  long- 
time the  Superintendent.      His  death  occurred  Nov.  2^, 

1894.  His  younger  broth- 
er, James  T.  Tolman, 
whom  I  also  knew  as  an 
Academy  student  under 
Mr.  Holmes,  died  Jan. 
29,  1896. 

Perhaps  no  one  among 
us  was  ever  more  respect- 
ed in  life  and  lamented 
in  death  than  Mr.  Cal- 
vin T.  Phillips  of  So. 
Hanover.  In  character 
and  action  he  was  almost 
an  ideal  man  and  citizen. 
For  a  time  he  was  a  most 
valued  member  of  our  Pub- 
lic Library  Committee. 

)2,  consisting  of 


CALVIN    T.   PHILLIPS. 

The    report    of  that  committee  in 


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HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY 


Rev,  Melvin  S.  Nash  and  Mrs.  D.  B.  Ford,  has  this 
tribute  to  his  worth  :  "  Himself  a  large  and  thoughtful 
reader  of  our  best  books,  and  greatly  interested  in 
our  current  literature,  as  also  in  the  history  of  the 
past,  he  naturally  felt  a  deep  interest  in  this  Li- 
brary, and  when  chosen  on  its  committee  he  sought  both 
as  a  matter  of  duty  and  of  pleasure  in  every  possible 
way  to  promote  its  interests As  mem- 
bers of  the  Library  Committee  we  feel  that  in  his  re- 
moval from  us  we  have  sustained  a  loss  which  is  well 
nigh  irreparable."  He  was  born  in  Hanson,  March  3, 
1836,  married  on  October  31,  1865,  to  Maria  E.  Josse- 
lyn,  and  died  Jan.  15,  1892. 

Mr.  Morrill  A.  Phil- 
lips, another  of  our  Acad- 
emy boys,  born  in  Han- 
son, Feb.  27,  1844,  and 
now  one  of  our  most  en- 
terprising, useful  and  hon- 
ored citizens,  has  been 
chosen  to  fill  his  brother's 
place  as  one  of  the  Li- 
brary trustees.  He  is  a 
leading  member  of  the 
large  tack  manufacturing 
firm  of  Ezra  l^hillips  and 
Sons,  to  which  his  de- 
ceased brother  also  be- 
longed. Mr.  Phillips  mar- 
ried Sophia  R.  Simmons, 
formerly  a  teacher  in  our  public  schools,  and  now  (in 
1898)  chosen  on  our  school  committee.  From  their 
family  of  student  daughters,  I   suspect  the  interests  of 


MORRIlL  a    PHILLIPS. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 


177 


education  in  future  years  will  not  be  allowed  to  suffer. 

Of  William  Carver 
Bates,  of  his  great  in- 
terest in  the  welfare  of 
the  Academy,  and  of 
some  of  his  public  ad- 
dresses and  labors,  we 
have  already  made  brief 
mention.  He  was  born 
in  Hanover,  May  25, 
i838,aLtended  the  Acad- 
emy in  1852 — 54,  mar- 
ried on  April  14,  1863, 
an  Academy  pupil,  Miss 
Emma  Barstow,  resides 
in  Newton,  of  which 
city  he  is  a  prominent 
citizen,  and  of  whose 
and 


is  now  engaged  in 


Wl  LLIAM  CARVER  BATES. 

Council  he  has  been  a  member 
mercantile  business  in  Boston. 

Mr.  Bates  is  largely  interested  m  historical  research, 
and  has  written  many  papers  for  literary,  historical  and 
genealogical  societies,  and  for  clubs  of  divers  names, 
and  has  been  a  frequent  speaker  in  our  patriotic  and 
civic  gatherings.  He  has  several  times  visited  the 
West  Indies,  and  has  shown  much  descriptive  talent  in 
his  "  Rambles  in  the  Tropics,"  and  in  his  account  of 
*'  Venezuela  and  British  Guiana." 

Enlisted  in  the  war.  May  i,  1861,  he  was  taken  pris- 
oner at  Bull  Run,  July  21,  and  was  ten  months  in  rebel 
prisons,  at  Richmond,  New  Orleans,  and  Salisbury,  N. 
C,  an  account  of  which  was  published  in  the  New  Eng- 
land  Magazine  for  April,    1895.      After  regaining   his 


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HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 


freedom  he  edited  and  published  a  little  work  entitled 
*'  The  S'tars  and  Stripes  in  Rebellion,"  (now  in  our  Pub- 
lic library)  which  consists  of  a  series  of  papers  written 
by  Federal  prisoners    to  while    away  the  time  while  re- 


siding in  different  rebel  prisons. 

As  a  man  of  large 
business  talent  we  may 
mention  the  name  of 
Eugene  H.  Clapp,  de- 
ceased, who  was  for 
about  three  years  con- 
nected with  the  Acade- 
my. He  was  born  in 
the  adjoining  town  of 
S.  Scituate,  Oct.  ii, 
1843.  He  started  the 
great  rubber  manufac- 
turing plant  in  our  vil- 
lage which  now  gives 
employment  to  a  very 
large  number  of  hands. 
He  also  was  connected 
with  many  other  business  enterprises,  and  was  more- 
over specially  interested  in  the  great  cause  of  temper- 
ance, and  remembered  that  cause  in  his  will.  I  think 
he  was  head  of  the  Sons  of  Temperance  of  the  United 
States,  and  was  more  than  once  urged  to  become  a  pro- 
hibition candidate  for  high  office  in  this  State.  A 
biographical  sketch  of  him  is  given  in  the  Temperance 
Record  for  Feb.,  1889,  and  in  the  Plymouth  County 
Biographical  Review.  He  was  twice  married  and  has 
had  several  children.  His  brother,  George  A.  Clapp, 
who  now  stands   at  the  head  of  the  manufacturing  Co., 


EUGENE    H,    CLAPP, 


HISTORY  OF  HANOVER  ACADEMY. 


179 


though  not  an  Academy  Alumnus,  yet  took  for  his  wife 
an  Academy  girl  and  school  teacher,  Abbie  A.  Stetson, 
of  Pembroke,  and  now  resides  in  So.  Hanover. 

Frederic  VV.  Clapp,  of  So.  Scituate,  a  cousin  of  the 
above,  was  for  some  years  a  partner  in  the  rubber  busi- 
ness. After  amassing  great  wealth  by  a  ten  years' 
residence  abroad,  he  returned  to  the  United  States  and 
bought  an  estate  in  Framingham  where  he  lived  until 
his  death  in  1879.  He  served  for  some  time  as  Repre- 
sentative to  General  Court,  from  Framingham.  In  1868 
he  married  Mary  A.  Lew^s,  and  has  left  several  children. 
Frank  A.  Clapp,  a  brother  of  Frederic,  vvas  born  in 
So.  Scituate,  Nov.  5,  1839,  married  Juletta,  daughter  of 
Mr.  Robert  Sylvester,  of  this  village,  lives  in  Wakefield, 
and  has  two  children.  He  was  for  two  years,  1880  and 
1 88 1,  a  Representative  from  Boston. 

Luther  Briggs,  son  of 
Luther  and  Susanna  (Stet- 
son) Briggs,  and  brother 
of  our  poetess,  Mrs.  Che- 
ney, was  born  in  Pembroke, 
July  24,  1822.  In  1832 — 33 
he  attended  the  excellent 
private  School  of  Mrs.  Char- 
lotte S.  Wade,  before  men- 
tioned. During  the  sum- 
mers of  1834 — 5 — 7,  he 
studied  at  the  Academy, 
then  under  the  tuition  of 
Mr.  White.  In  the  mean- 
time he  was  pursuing  his 
studies  at  Scituate  Harbor 
LUTHER  BRIGGS.  uudcr  thc  dircctiou  of  Mr. 


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HISTORY    OF    HANOVER   ACADEMY. 


Washburn,  a  former  Academy  teacher,  and  subsequent- 
ly also  at  Bridgewater,  under  the  tuition  of  Hon.  John 
A.  Shaw,  who  at  a  later  date  became  Superintendent  of 
Schools  in  New  Orleans,  where  he  had  Jefferson  Davis 
as  one  of  his  pupils.  One*  winter  Mr.  Briggs  taught  a 
public  school  in  Duxbury.  For  two  summers  he  was 
employed  on  Government  works  at  Forts  Warren  and 
Independence  in  Boston  Harbor.  Soon  afterward  he 
commenced  business  as  ''Architect,  Civil  Fngineer  and 
Surveyor,"  and  has  had  an  office  in  Boston  for  more 
than  fifty  years.  During  this  time  he  has  designed 
many  public  and  private  buildings  for  this  and  foreign 
countries,  and  has  also  been  engaged  in  laying  out 
estates,  surveying  railroads,  and  in  designing  and  erect- 
inof  beacons  in  Boston  Harbor  and  on  the  Massachusetts 
coast.  In  the  spring  of  1894  he  visited  England  and 
most  of  the  principal  cities  of  Europe. 

In  July  7,  1847,  he  was 
married  to  Adeline, 
daughter  of  Horace  Col- 
lamore,  Esq.,  (of  whose 
helpful  aid  in  my  writ- 
ing I  have  already  made 
mention,  and  whose 
portrait  I  am  happy  here 
to  present,)  and  on  July 
7,  1897,  they  celebrated 
their  golden  anniversa- 
ry. They  reside  in  Ne- 
ponset,  near  Boston,  and 
have  no  children.  I 
wish  to  add  in  regard  to 
Mrs.  Briggs  that  in  all 
ADELINE  BRIGGS.  hcr  Icttcrs  to  uic  shc  in- 


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variably  speaks  well  of  her  different  teachers,  and  so  I 
judge  her  to  have  been  a  model  scholar,  and  I  am  sorry 
that  I  could  not  elsewhere  give  a  picture  of  herself  as 
an  Academy  pupil.  Of  her  sister,  Julia  Collamore,  who 
attended  the  Academy  at  the  same  time  with  myself,  I 
have  the  most  pleasant  recollections.  I  think  she  passed 
away  in  compaiatively  early  life. 


Horace  Collamore, 
Esq.,  father  of  Adeline, 
Julia,  Dr.  Francis  and  Le- 
ander,  already  named,  was 
son  of  Capt.  Enoch  Colla- 
more, who  inarched  to  the 
Lexington  alarm,  and  was 
born  in  Scituate,  now  Nor- 
well,  Nov.  4,  1 79 1,  the 
youngest  of  eight  children 
who  survived  infancy. 
With  a  view  to  profes- 
sional life  he  became  a 
pupil  of  Hanover  Acade- 
my under  the  instruction 
of  Rev.  Mr.  Chaddock, 
studying  the  languages 
Diverted,  however,  from  this 
purpose  by  divers  circumstances,  he  engaged  in  1812  in 
the  crockery  and  glass  business  in  Boston,  in  which 
business  he  continued  nine  years,  till  failing  health  com- 
pelled him  to  retire  to  the  country.  In  Sept.  20,  18 14, 
he  married  Laura  Briggs  of  Pembroke,  and  they  lived 
to  celebrate  their  golden  wedding.  In  1821  he  became 
a  resident  of    Pembroke,    and  thenceforth    devoted   his 


HORACE   COLLAMORE. 

and  hiirher  mathematics 


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HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY 


time  to  farming,  keeping  a  country  store,  etc.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Plymouth  County  Agricultural  Society 
from  its  start,  its  supervisor  for  several  years,  and  one 
of  its  Vice  Presidents.  He  wrote  a  good  hand  with  a 
facile  pen,  and  often  contributed  valuable  articles  to  the 
leading  agricultural  journals  of  the  day.  He  was  Bri- 
gade Major  and  Inspector  of  the  ist  Brigade,  5th 
Division  of  the  Massachusetts  Militia.  For  a  consider- 
able period  he  was  Postmaster  of  Pembroke,  and  for 
several  years  was  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  of  the  Quo- 
rum. In  1 841  and  '42  he  was  Representative  to  the 
General  Court,  and  in  1853  was  chosen  Senator  from 
the  Plymouth  District.  Eleven  children  were  born  to 
him,  ten  of  whom,  five  sons  and  five  daughters,  lived  to 
maturity,  and  all  of  them  received  their  education  in 
large  part  at  Hanover  Academy,  in  which  Institution 
he  took  a  deep  interest,  and  of  which  he    was  for  many 

years  a  Trustee.  He  died 
Aug.  27,  1867.  The  above 
photograph  was  taken 
when  he  was  73  years  old. 
Horace  Lorenzo  Col- 
LAMORE,  eldest  son  of  Hor- 
ace Collamore,  Esq.,  was 
born  in  Boston,  Dec.  8, 
1 8 16,  but  removed  with  his 
parents  to  Pembroke  in 
1821.  He  attended  the 
"  Plymouth  County  Sem- 
inary," established  by  Mrs. 
Charlotte  S.  Wade,  of 
whom  we  have  previously 
spoken,  and  became  a  stu- 
dent of  Hanover  Academy 


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HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  183 

under  the  tuition  of  Mr.  Rolfe,  Rev.  Mr.  Wolcott, 
and  Dr.  Ira  Warren.  Subsequently  he  attended  the 
Bridgewater  Academy  under  the  instruction  of  the  dis- 
tinguished educator,  John  A.  Shaw.  In  our  Academy 
he  had  for  his  classmates  Frederick  Jacobs,  John  Curtis, 
the  founder  of  our  Free  Library,  William  H.  Whitman, 
clerk  of  Plymouth  County  Court,  William  Paley  Allen, 
son  of  Rev.  Morrill  Allen,  and  his  cousin,  Andrew  F. 
Collamore,  of  whose  sad  fate  mention  will  be  made  on 
a  subsequent  page.  After  leaving  school  he  spent  a  few 
years  in  Boston,  and  then  took  up  his  residence  in 
Kingston,  where  he  managed  a  country  store,  served  as 
Postmaster,  and  held  various  town  offices.  In  1861  he 
returned  to  Boston,  and  engaged  for  some  19  years  in 
the  Auction  and  Commission  business.  He  was  a  deep 
thinker  and  a  well-read  man,  was  quiet  and  unassuming 
in  manner,  and  made  friends  wherever  he  went.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Mt.  Lebanon  Lodge  of  Freemasons 
for  more  than  thirty  years,  and  was  known  as  one  of  the 
few  remaining,  pronounced,  Jacksonian  Democrats  of 
the  old  school.  On  the  tariff  and  the  finance  he  was 
regarded  as  an  able  authority,  and  in  defence  of  his 
political  principles  he  used  both  voice  and  pen  until 
about  the  period  of  his  death,  which  latter  event  oc- 
curred on  June  9,  1897.  In  Jan.  31,  1843,  ^^  married 
Lydia,  daughter  of  David  and  Lydia  (Foster)  Beal,  of 
Kingston,  and  has  left  as  survivors  a  daughter  and  two 
grandchildren. 

Isaac  Oilman  Stetson,  one  of  our  Academy  stu- 
dents, was  the  son  of  Isaac  O.  and  Emily  (Josselyn) 
Stetson,  and  was  born  Aug  7,  1826.  In  1846  he  mar- 
ried an  Academy  girl  and  school  teacher,  Jane  Reed 
Oldham,  who  was  born  Oct.  31,  1825,  and  died  April  2, 


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1892.  Mr.  Stetson  died  most  suddenly  Aug.  17,  1897, 
aged  nearly  72  years.  For  18  years  he  was  a  Selectman, 
Assessor  and  Overseer  of  the  town  of  Hanover,  and  was 
serving  in  those  offices  at  the  time  of  his  death.  For 
many  years  he  was  a  store  keeper  and  Postmaster  in 
So.  Hanover,  and  in  1885  was  elected  to  our  State  Leg- 
islature. He  was  highly  esteemed  as  a  neighbor,  a  citi- 
zen, a  town  officer,  and  an  efficient  business  man,  and 
was  especially  noted  in  all  these  positions  for  his  great 
geniality  of  manner  and  spirit.  His  associates  in  office 
have  borne  public  testimony  to  their ''appreciation  of  his 
worth  as  an  officer,  his  integrity  as  a  citizen,  and  his 
agreeable  companionship  as  a  co-worker;"  and  the  town 
has  also  placed  on  record  its  testimony  to  his  high 
character,  to  his  worth  as  a  man  and  to  the  value  of  his 
labors    as    a  faithful    official.       "  A    friend,    genial  and 

true,  his  pleasant  face  was 
a  mirror,  reflecting  the 
emotions  of  a  warm,  sym- 
pathetic heart." 


Hon.  Jedediah 
DwELLEY,  a  younger 
brother  of  George  R. 
Dwell ey,  was  born  in 
Hanover,  Feb.  28,  1834, 
and  studied  for  a  time  in 
the  Academy  under  the 
administration  of  Mr. 
McLauthlin.  When 
but  twenty-five  years  of 
age  he  was  chosen  Se- 
lectman, and  served  in 
For  some  twelve  years 


HON.  JEDEDIAH    DWELLEY. 

that  capacity  for  thirty  years 


HISTOKV    OF    HAJsOVER    ACADEMY 


185 


he  was  also  a  member  of  the  School  Committee.  In 
1865  he  was  chosen  Representative  to  General  Court, 
and  in  1873  and  '74  he  served  as  Senator.  For  nine  or 
ten  years  he  was  special  County  Commissioner,  and  is 
now  (1898)  serving  his  twenty-second  year  as  County 
Commissioner,  being  in  length  of  service  the  senior 
County  Commissioner  in  the  Commonwealth.  He  was 
Chairman  of  the  Selectmen  during  the  war  (being  the 
youngest  chairman  in  the  State),  and  has  ever  taken  a 
deep  interest  in  tb.e  welfare  of  the  soldiers.  And  this 
same  interest  he  has  ever  manifested  in  all  that  con- 
cerns the  welfare  of  the  town  both  by  his  official  life 
and  as  a  private  citizen,  and  no  one  has  better  deserved 
to  be  honored  as  a  father  of  the  town  than  he.  Speak- 
ing, however,  of  himself  he  says  :  "If  it  can  be  truth- 
fully said  that  I  have 
loved  mercy  and  dealt 
justly,  personally,  this 
would  seem  to  me  great- 
er honor  than  to  recount 
my  years  of  official  ser- 
vice." 

Benjamin  Bar  stow 

ToRREV,    son    of     Capt. 

Haviland      and      Salome 

(Barstow)     Torrey,     was 

born  in    Pembroke,   Nov. 

22,    1837.     He    attended 

Hanover   Academy  when 

under      the      tuition     of 

BENJAMIN  BARSTOW  TORREY.       Mcssrs.    McLauthHn  and 

Conant,  and  also  the  "  University  Grammar  School"  of 

Providence,  R.  I.     On  August  25,  1858,  he  entered  the 


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service  of  the  Boston  and  Providence  Railroad  Company, 
and  since  1867  has  been  Treasurer  of  that  Corporation. 
In  1864  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  "  New  England 
Historic,  Genealogical  Society  "  of  Boston,  and  has  been 
its  Treasurer  since  1870.  Our  readers  will  perchance 
remember  that  he  was,  by  his  uncle,  John  Barstow, 
made  a  Trustee  of  the  fund  which  he  gave  to  the  Acad- 
emy. In  1865  he  was  married  to  Abby  Vose  Bent  of 
Milton,  who  died  September,  1897,  leaving  no  children. 
He  now  resides  in  Boston,  and  the  well-known  "  Broad 
Oak  "  mansion,  (see  I^arry's  History,  p.  227)  built  by 
his  grandfather.  Col.  John  B.  Barstow,  but  since  owned 
and  for  a  time  occupied  by  himself,  now  stands  empty. 
I  trust  the  time  will  come  when  he  will  again  become 
its  occu]:»ant. 

Lemuel  Cushing  Water- 
man was  for  many  years  a 
director  and  clerk  of  the 
Hanover  Academy  Corpo- 
ration. In  examining  its 
Records  I  have  always 
found  it  a  pleasure  to  look 
at  and  to  read  his  neat, 
plain,  beautiful  handwrit- 
ing. He  was  born  in  So. 
Scituate,  near  Church  Hill, 
July  14,  1814,  and  finished 
his  education  in  the  Acad- 
emy in  his  eighteenth  year. 
After  a  short  term  of  busi- 
ness in  Boston  his  health 
LEMUEL  c.  WATERMAN.  ^^.^^^^^       ^^^^       thereafter 

for    several    years    he    engaged    in    school    keeping    in 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 


187 


places  not  far  from  home.  Subsequently  he  was  em- 
ployed in  the  tack  and  nail  factory  of  Mr.  Samuel  Sal- 
mond  on  the  third  herring-  brook,  and  finally  attained 
the  position  of  Superintendent  of  the  works.  After- 
ward he  commenced  the  manufacture  of  tacks  and  nails  at 
Project  Dale,  Hanover.  In  his  later  years  he  had  the  care 
and  settlement  of  the  large  estate  left  by  George  Curtis. 
For  many  vears  he  was  a  Selectman  and  a  member  of 
the  School  Committee  of  his  native  town,  and  in  1858 
he  represented  the  towns  of  So.  Scituate  and  Hanover 
in  the  Legislature.  His  death  occurred  in  March  11, 
1889. 

RuDOLPHus  C.  Water- 
man, eldest  son  of  Lemuel 
C.  and  Elizabeth  B.  (Good- 
ing) Waterman,  was  born 
in  So.  Scituate,  June  16, 
1840,  and  attended  school 
at  the  Academy  under  the 
tuition  of  Frederic  O.  Bars- 
tow  and  Charles  A.  Reed. 
In  1858  he  went  to  Boston 
and  was  there  engaged  in 
the  wholesale  drug  and 
paint  business  with 
Messrs.  Bird  &  Co.  until 
1862  when  he  enlisted  for 
RUDOLPHUS  c.  WATERMAN.  ^tic  war  ill  thc  44th  Mass. 

Vols.  After  his  return,  he  engaged  in  the  tack  manu- 
facturing business  of  his  father,  which  is  now  carried 
on  at  Project  Dale,  Hanover,  by  himself  and  members 
of  his  family.     In  1866  he  took  for  his  wife  M.  Adele 


1 88  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

Tomlinson  of  Boston,  who  died  Jan.  27,  1895,  aged  52 
years,  leaving  two  sons,  William  R.  and  Harry  dishing 
Waterman, — an  only  daughter,  Lillian  Adele,  aged  six 
years,  having  died  previously.  In  1880  he  served  as 
Selectman  of  Hanover,  and  in  1882  was  a  member  of 
the  Legislature.  For  many  years  Mr.  Waterman  has 
been  a  director  of  the  Academy,  and  has  succeeded  to 
his  father  as  Clerk  of  the  Corporation.  Mr.  W.  is 
rightly  numbered  as  one  of  our  most  worthy  and 
honored  citizens. 

Mr.  Edmund  O.  Sylvester,  eldest  son  of  Mr.  Mi- 
chael Sylvester,  was  for  many  years  either  a  Treasurer 
or  a  Director  of  Hanover  Academy.  When  in  an  earlier 
page  of  my  first  manuscript  I  wrote  of  the  forty-three 
original  stockholders  of  the  present  Academic  property, 
his  name  was  mentioned  as  one  of  the  then  surviving 
five,  but  this  name  must  now  be  put  in  the  list  of  the 
starred.  His  death  occurred  on  Sunday  morning,  April 
17,  1898.  He  married  for  his  first  wife,  Mary,  and  for 
his  second  wife,  Eliza  S.,  daughters  of  Samuel  Salmond, 
and  he  leaves,  besides  the  widow,  five  sons  and  one 
daughter,  the  wife  of  Rev.  F.  S.  Harraden,  to  mourn 
his  loss.*  A  man  of  large  business  enterprise,  he  for 
many  years  carried  on  the  tack  business  at  the  Tiffany 
factory  under  the  firm  name  of  Samuel  Salmond  &  Son, 
while  at  the   same   time   he  cultivated   a  large  farm  at 

*  While  these  pages  were  pass.ing  through  the  press,  the  youngest 
son,  Francis  Baldwin  Sylvester,  was  taken  from  earth  after  a  brief 
illness,  March  2,  1899. 

I  may  here  add  that  only  a  few  days  after  this,  March  28,  "my 
venerable  neighbor  friend,"  (referred  to  in  the  Preface),  Mr.  Robert 
Sylvester,  uncle  to  the  above  Mr.  Edmund,  likewise  passed  away 
at  the  age  of  93  years,  5  months.  This  leaves  only  two  "surviving 
grantees,  Martin  P.  McLauthlin  of  Maiden  and  Robert  E.  Dwelley 
of  Hanover. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY 


home.  His  beautified  homestead  estate,  on  the  east 
side  of  Washington  street,  a  part  of  which  was  once  a 
rocky  pasture,  bears  witness  to  his  enterprise  and  his 
taste  for  the  beautiful.  He  was  a  man  of  great  wealth, 
yet  liberal  withal,  and  he  seldom  refused  to  help  a  needy 
applicant  who  was  known  to  be  worthy. 

George  F.  Stetson,  of  Han- 
son, born  April  ii,  1833,  served 
many  years  on  the  School  Com- 
mittee of  Hanson,  a  part  of  the 
time  as  Chairman,  was  for  six 
years,  through  and  after  the 
Civil  War,  U.  S.  Assistant  As- 
sessor of  Internal  Revenue  for 
the  towns  of  Hanson,  and  Han- 
over, was  Representative  for 
Hanson,  Halifax  and  Plympton 
in  1 86 1  and  '62,  also  for  Han- 
son, Pembroke,  Halifax  and 
Marshfield  in  1879  and  1883. 
In  the  Legislature  he  took  a 
G.  F.  STETSON.  vcry  active  part  in  favor  of  pro- 

hibitory legislation.  In  1879  he  made  a  minority  re- 
port from  the  liquor  committee,  proposing  the  substitu- 
tion of  prohibition  for  license,  and  sustained  the  same 
in  a  speech  which  was  complimented  on  the  spot  by  no 
less  a  man  than  Judge  Russell.  At  the  close  of  that 
session,  Gov.  Talbot  presented  him  with  the  pen  with 
which  he  signed  the  Civil  Damage  (temperance)  Bill. 
In  1883,  as  House  Chairman  of  the  Joint  Standing  Com- 
mittee on  the  Liquor  Law  he  presented  and  advocated 
in  the  House  a  proposition  for  Constitutional   Prohibi- 


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HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 


tion,  the  first  speech  of  that  kind  which  was  ever  made 
in  the  Massachusetts  Legislature.  Judging  from  his 
official  action  in  the  cause  of  temperance,  one  may 
properly  conclude  that  he  never  applied  "  hot  and  re- 
bellious liquors  in  his  blood,"  either  in  youth  or  age, 
even  as  he   would  forbid  to  others  any  like   application. 

Mr.  Stetson,  on  December 
3,  1 86 1,  took  for  his  wife  an 
Academy  girl,  Dorothy  Brown 
Dyer,  daughter  of  Hervey 
and  Ruth  (Reed)  Dyer.  She 
was  born  March  29,  1835, 
and  died  June  2,  1884  leav- 
ing two  children,  Florence 
D.  (Josselyn)  born  April  26, 
1874,  and  George  H.,  born 
April  14,  1878.  "She  was  a 
most  capable,  diligent  and 
successful  teacher,  teaching 
almost  constantly  in  Pem- 
broke and  Hanson  from  the 
time  she  left  the  Academy 
MRS.  STETSON.  uutll  hcr  marriage.     Though 

declining  to  accept  the  position,  she  was  the  first  female 
elected  to  serve  upon  the  School  Committee  of  Han- 
son." As  I  was  wholly  unacquainted  with  this  devoted 
and  faithful  teacher,  it  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  have 
seen  her  portrait  and  to  have  it  printed,  and  I  trust  that 
many  others  will  be  equally  pleased.  Both  parties  were 
about  thirty-five  years  of  age  when  their  pictures  were 
taken. 

We  are  glad  to  record  the  fact  that  Mr.  John  Curtis 
who  founded  our  Hanover  Free  Library,  and  recently 


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HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 


gave  to  the  town  ;^4000  as  a  Library  Fund,  and  hopes 
to  do  still  more  for  that  cause  in  the  future,  was  an  Acad- 
emy student.  He  was  born  in  No.  Hanover,  on  Curtis 
street,  July  10,  18 17  (not  18 16  as  in  Barry),  and  in  early 
life  attended  the  common  schools  for  a  few  months  in  win- 
ter. The  teachers,  who  were  mainly  from  the  vicinity, 
had  but  a    smattering   of   education,  and    generally    re- 


MR.  JOHN   CURTIS. 

sumed  their  customary  employments  when  the  school 
term  was  over.  Lessons  were  learned  and  recited  by 
rote  from  the  text  books,  and  unaccompanied  with  any 
explanation.  Fortunately  the  school  was  taught  one 
winter  by  a  student,  afterwards  a  teacher,  of  the  Wes- 
leyan  Academy  of  Wilbraham,  who  was  a  good  scholar 
and  in  sympathy  with  progress,  but  who  was  withal  very 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  I93 

unpopular  in  the  ''  deestrict."  By  him  the  parents  of 
Mr.  Curtis  were  persuaded  to  let  their  son  go  to  Wil- 
braham  for  one  year.  On  returning  from  the  Wesleyan 
Academy  he  attended  our  Hanover  Academy  in  1833 — 4 
under  the  tuition  of  Mr.  Washburn  and  Ira  Warren.* 

While  attending  school  here  he,  according  to  the  cus- 
tom of  those  days,  was  obliged  to  walk  both  ways,  tak- 
ing his  noon  lunch  with  him.  "To  revive  my  memory," 
he  says,  "  I  have  been  over  the  same  route  on  foot  when 
nearly  an  octogenarian — thanks  to  sound  health."  Upon 
leaving  the  Academy  he  went  to  Boston  alone  to  find 

*Mr.  Curtis  writes  me  that  his  most  intimate  friend  in  the  Acad- 
emy and  subsequently  in  Boston,  was  Andrew  Fuller  Collamore, 
son  of  Deacon  John  Collamore,  of  Assinippi,  to  whom  we  have 
previously  made  reference.  Mis  tragic  end  on  the  steamer  Atlan- 
tic, Nov.  25,  IHid,  is  thus  noticed  in  a  certain  publication  lately 
received  :  "  Mr.  Andrew  Collamore,  a  young  business  man  of  this 
city,  who  was  widely  known  and  esteemed  in  business  and  social 
circles,  was  journeying  to  New  York  to  be  married  on  Thanksgiv- 
ing evening.  On  that  fearful  night  the  cold,  icy  waves  of  Long 
Island  Sound  embraced  the  ardent  lover,  and  shrouded  in  grief  the 
life  of  a  beautiful  and  devoted  young  lady." 

This  new  and  elegant  steamer  struck  on  a  reef  of  rock  a  few 
miles  out  from  New  London,  in  a  fearful  gale  and  snow  storm,  and 
was  totally  lost  with  upward  of  fifty  passengers.  This  sad  wreck, 
and  the  still  sadder  burning  of  the  steamer  Lexington  on  the  same 
Long  Island  Sound  on  Jan.  13,  18-40,  when  one  hundred  and  fifty- 
six  persons,  many  of  them  of  great  eminence,  were  burned  or 
drowned,  can  never  be  forgotten  by  our  people 

To  the  above  paragraphs  I  must  now  add  the  fearful  loss  which 
hasjust  taken  place  (Nov.  27,  1898),  of  probably  over  170  persons, 
constituting  the  entire  company  of  the  passengers  and  crew  of  the 
steamer  Portland,  which  \vas  driven  on  the  shore  of  Cape  Cod  by 
the  most  terrific  blizzard  that  was  ever  known  in  these  parts,  and  by 
which,  indeed,  a  large  portion  of  our  New  England  coast  has  been 
visited  with  wreckage,  desolation  and  death.  Let  us  be  thankful 
for   the   assurance   of    prophecy   that   there  shall  be  no  more 

SEA. 


194  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

some  sort  of  position.  Witli  very  flattering  certificates 
of  his  character  and  abilities  from  Rev.  Mr.  Dunbar,  of 
the  No.  Hanover  Baptist  church,  and  from  his  Wilbra- 
ham  teacher,  he  obtained  a  situation  with  a  clothing 
and  tailoring  firm,  agreeing  to  stay  with  them  until 
twenty-one  years  of  age  for  ^50  a  year  and  his  board. 
The  contract  was  faithfully  kept,  and  in  consequence 
the  firm  helped  him  to  set  up  in  the  clothing  busi- 
ness for  himself  in  his  twenty-first  year  ;  and  he  con- 
tinued in  that  business  on  the  same  spot,  6  and  8  North 
street,  for  nearly  forty  years,  and  then  relinquished  it 
to  his  nephew,  Walter  C.  Brooks,  another  Hanover 
boy,  now  at  15  Milk  street,  which  is  Mr.  Curtis'  P.  O. 
address. 

Mr.  Curtis'  father  early  took  Mr.  Garrison's  paper, 
"  The  Liberator,  and  Mr.  C.  was  always  deeply  inter- 
ested in  the  anti-slavery  question.  ''About  ten  years 
ago  I  was  invited,"  he  says,  "to  attend  a  'materializing 
seance'  of  the  Spiritualists,  and  was  so  convinced  of  its 
stupendous  fraud,  I  became  interested  in  exposing  the 
swindle.  The  result  was  that  I  published  a  pamphlet," 
etc.  This,  I  think,  was  entitled  ''  Some  Account  of  the 
Vampires  of  Onset,  Past  and  Present."  He  says : 
"  All  that  happened  in  Boston  I  know  to  be  true,  for  I 
was  in  it  as  a  leading  actor." 

Mr.  Curtis  has  one  artist  daughter,  Alice  M.,  who 
has  been  recently  travelling  in  Europe. 

In  addition  to  the  full-page  portrait  of  Mr.  Curtis  I 
desired  a  smaller  picture  taken  in  his  earlier  years,  the 
choice  of  course  being  left  to  himself  and  family.  The 
one  presented  above,  taken  from  an  old-fashioned  minia- 
ture, was  selected,  probably,  from  an  artistic  point  of 
view.     Personally  I    should    have    preferred    a  portrait 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 


95 


from  a  photograph  in   my  possession  which  looks  more 
as.  I  used  to  know  him  when  a  business  man. 


HON.  STEPHEN     N.   GIFFORD. 


The  most  honored  name,  perhaps,  that  has  ever  been 
connected  with  Hanover  Academy  is  that  of  Hon.  Ste- 
phen Nye  Gifford.  He  was  born  in  Pembroke,  July  21, 
181 5,  and  died  at  his  home  in  Duxbury,  April  18,  1886, 
He  was  left  fatherless  at  the  early  age  of  ten,  the  family 
were  in  humble  and  straitened  circumstances,  and  he  in 
his  early  youth  engaged  in  shoemaking  in  the  house 
now  occupied  by  Conductor  Charles  E.  Collamore, 
in  Brickkiln  street,  No.  Pembroke.  1  have  been' 
told  that  a  neighbor  friend  of  his,  Susan  S.  (Briggs) 
Smith,  greatly  interested  herself  in  the  boy's  welfare, 
and  encouraged  him  to  attend  the  Academy  ;  and  in 
this  way,  through  many  difficulties,  he  started  on  a  long 


196  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

career  of  eminent  usefulness  and  honor.  After  study- 
ing for  a  time  in  Bridgewater — paying  his  way  by  work- 
ing at  his  trade  out  of  school  hours — he  began  teaching 
in  the  common  schools  (one  term  or  more  in- Centre 
Hanover),  and  after  some  years  established  a  private 
school  in  Duxbury.  In  1850  he  was  chosen  Represen- 
tative, and  the  next  year  he  was  appointed  inspector  in 
the  Boston  Custom  House.  After  serving  for  brief 
periods  as  State  Auditor  and  as  Assistant  Clerk  in  the 
Senate  and  House,  he  in  1858  was  chosen  Clerk  of  the 
Senate,  and  held  this  office  nearly  twenty-nine  years, 
until  the  time  of  his  death,  a  continuance  in  that  office 
which  is  unparalleled  in  the  history  of  the  Common- 
wealth. In  1882,  March  10,  after  twenty-four  years  of 
this  service,  a  "Complimentary  Dinner"  was  given  to 
him  by  the  Senate  in  the  United  States  Hotel,  Boston, 
"  in  honor  of  the  faithful  service  of  a  true  man  who  for 
many  years  has  adorned  the  trust  reposed  in  him,  by 
every  quality  which  should  distinguish  the  public  ser- 
vice, and  by  every  grace  of  character  which  can  attach 
him  to  his  associates."  His  printed  Memorial  speaks 
of  him  as  "A  modest,  unassuming,  genial,  kindly  gen- 
tleman," who  for  "  more  than  twenty-eight  years  has 
stood  at  his  post  of  duty,  the  manly,  the  faithful,  the 
dignified,  the  kind-hearted,  aye,  the  big-hearted  Clerk  of 
the  Massachusetts  Senate."  The  amount  of  clerical 
labor  which  he  performed,  and  of  assistance  which  he 
unassumingly  rendered  in  successive  years  to  new  Sen- 
ators and  to  new  Speakers  cannot  easily  be  described  or 
conceived. 

It  seems  altogether  congruous  that  in  connection  with 
the  preceding  account  of  Mr.  Gifford  I  should  here  give 
some    notice  of   his  early  patroness  and    benefactor  to 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY 


197 


whom  he,  at  about  the  time  the  complimentary  dinner 
was  given  him,  wrote  these  words  :  "  You  especially 
were  the  first  one  who  encouraged  me  to  think  that  I 
was  anything."  Susan  Stetson  Briggs,  eldest  daughter  of 
Luther  and  Susan  (Stetson)  Briggs,  and  sister  of  Luther 
Briggs,  and  Augusta  (Briggs)  Cheney,  already  named, 
was  born  July  26,  181 3.  She  was  a  pupil  of  Mr.  Holmes 
in  the  district  school  of  No.  Pembroke,  and  began  her 
studies  at  the  Academy  under  Mr.   Rolfe.     In  April  5, 


MRS.    SMiTH 


1838,  she  was  married  by  Rev.  Morrill  Allen  to  Na- 
thaniel Smith,  grandson  of  Rev.  Thomas  Smith,  the 
second  minister  of  Pembroke,  and  on  April  5,  1888  they 
celebrated  their  golden  wedding.  They  had  two  chil- 
dren, Susan  Augusta  Smith,  for  a  time  an  assistant 
teacher  at  the  Academy,  and  Moses  Bass  Smith.  He 
studied  at  the  Academy, and  was  a  youth  of  great  prom- 


190  HISTORY  OF  HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

ise,  but  lost  his  life  April  5,  1861,  in  a  shipwreck  off 
Hatteras  Inlet.  Mr.  Nathaniel  Smith  died  March  25, 
1890.  The  widow  and  daughter  still  reside  in  the  pleas- 
ant old  family  homestead. 

Alumni  who  have  taught  School. 

It  is  impossible  for  any  one,  unless  possessed  of  om- 
niscience, to  give  all  the  names  of  our  Academy  students 
(and  there  is  quite  a  host  of  them)  who  have  become 
teachers.  I  have  however  sought,  at  the  request  of 
some,  to  furnish  a  list  of  our  Alumni  and  Alumnae  who 
have,  chiefly  within  my  own  recollection,  taught  in  our 
public  schools  and  higher  seminaries.  Of  course  it  is 
understood  that  other  Academy  students  who  have 
never  taught  may  be  quite  the  equals  in  talent  and 
scholarship  of  those  who  did  teach.  Some  of  this  lat- 
ter class,  indeed,  only  taught  in  the  lower  schools  and 
but  for  a  short  time. 

I  am  painfully  aware  that  this  list  and  other  lists  which 
precede  and  follow  are  very  imperfect,  containing  some 
names  which  should  be  omitted,  and  omitting  many 
names  which  should  be  inserted.  If  my  friends  will 
kindly  send  me  any  additions  or  corrections  to  any  of 
these  lists,  I  will  see  that  they  are  inserted  in  a  page  of 
Addenda  et  Corrigenda  in  some  future  copies  of  this 
work. 

Names  of  Male  TeacJiers — William  P.  Allen,  Stephen 
N.  Gifford,  Luther  Briggs,  Lemuel  C.  Waterman,  Geo. 
R.  Dwelley,  Joshua  J.  Ellis,  Francis  Collamore,  Lean- 
der  Collamore,  Geo.  A.  Collamore,  Andrew  T.  Magoun, 
Charles  Hitchcock,  William  H.  Stetson,  Geo.  M.  Reed, 
David  A.  Josselyn,  Benjamin  B.  Torrey,  Franklin  Ja- 
cobs, William  P.   Duncan,  John    S.  Crosby,  Frederic  O. 


HISTORY  OF  HANOVER  ACADEMY.  I99 

l^arstovv,  Calvin  T.  Phillips,  Clarence  L.  Howes,  John 
P.  Thorndyke,  William  P.  Brooks,  Charles  B.  Phillips, 
Joseph  T.  Corlew,  Edward  Soiithworth,  Daniel  K.  Stet- 
son, Samuel  S.  Knapp,  James  C.  Church.  Harry  T. 
Watkins. 

Names  of  Female  TeacJiers — Nancy  W.  Col]  am  ore 
(Mitchell),  Lavina  A.  Hatch,  Mary  B.  Oldham  (Perry), 
Jane  R.  Oldham  (Stetson),  Aurelia  Hall  (Bonney),  Ann 
S.  Dwelley  (Hatch),  Susan  Magoun  (Sherman),  Adeline 
Collamore  (Briggs),  Augusta  Briggs  (Cheney),  Lydia 
W.  Collamore  (Richardson),  Lucinda  Hatch  (Oakman), 
Julia  Collamore  (Stodder),  Sophia  Clark  (Holmes), 
Addie  M.  Stockbridge  (Potter),  Elizabeth  A.  Stock- 
bridge  (Allen),  L.  Elmina  Curtis  (Jacobs),  Laura  J. 
Duncan  (King),  Lucia  A.  Duncan  (Dean),  Amelia  A. 
Stockbridge  (Gardner),  Sophia  A.  Holmes  (Hatch), 
Lucy  E.  Boynton  (Cromack),  Mary  A.  Oldham,  Mary 
Clark,  Priscilla  Clark  (Eells),  P^mma  Barstow  (Bates), 
Hannah  E.  Brooks  (Oakman),  Lucy  Vinal  (Stetson), 
Mary  Collamore  (Ford),  Sarah  Collamore  (Hitchcock), 
Helena  M.  T.  Eells  (Howland),  Carolire  D.  Collamore 
(Loving),  Arabella  Collamore  (Perrow),  Sarah  Hitch- 
cock, Louisa  Clark  (Alden),  Susanna  F.  Sylvester 
(Lapham),  Juletta  Sylvester  (Clapp),  Sarah  E.  Sylvester 
(Allen),  Lydia  Sylvester  (Fuller),  Huldah  D.  Freeman 
(Thrasher),  Mary  D.  A.  Hatch  (Simonds),  Susan  P. 
Hatch  (Perkins),  Lucy  A.  Barstow  (Waterman),  Eliza- 
beth T.  Waterman  (Sylvester),  Clara  H.  Mann  (Bon- 
ney), Laura  F.  Mann  (White),  Fiorina  Mann,  Helen  M. 
Josselyn  (Howland),  Mary  E.  Barstow,  EttaH.  Barstow, 
Tryphena  Whiting,  Cynthia  Whiting  (Whiting),  Sophia 
B.  Loring  (Taylor),  Betsy  H.  Whiting  (Whiting),  Ellen 


200  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

C.  Gardner  (Church),  Mary  L.  Eells,  Huldah  B.  Dwel- 
ley,  Esther  S.  Magoun  (Hazeltine),  Nancy  T.  Magoun 
(Beale),  Anna  Tolman,  Fidelia  L.  Rowland  (Barker), 
Mary  P.  Howland,  Abby  C.  Donnell,  Nancy  C.  Donnell, 
Rebecca  J.  Joyce  (Josselyn),  Polly  B.  Talbot  (Knapp), 
Charlotte  S.  Gardner  (Briggs),  Ruth  W.  Stetson  (Da- 
mon), Bessie  H.  Stetson  (Josselyn),  Susan  J.  Turner 
(Phinney),  Addie  W.  Turner  (Nash),  P^liza  M.  Church 
(Billings),  Lucy  H.  Chamberlain  (Turner),  Ophelia 
Litchfield  (Rice),  Florence  V.  Rogers  (French),  Ruth- 
etta  M.  Sylvester,  Emily  E.  Sylvester,  Martha  W.  Syl- 
vester (Turner),  Angela  B.  Ford  (Brock),  Helen  P. 
Barker  (Chamberlain),  Lydia  W.  Collamore  (Sampson), 
Abbie  C.  Hatch,  PLlla  J.  Thomas  (Paine),  Abbie  A. 
Stetson  (Clapp),  Eunice  P.  Simmons,  Emma  L.  Stod- 
dard (Packard),  Hannah  B.  Hart  (Pratt),  P>ancis  Tur- 
ner (Harlow),  Charlotte  E.  Winslow  (Barnard),  Ruth 
Magoun  (Magoun),  Susan  M.  Magoun  (Chamberlain,) 
Lizzie  Paulding,  Anna  P.  Alden  (Kingman),  Grace  L. 
Russell,  Grace  F.  Hatch  (Dana),  Susan  D.  Stone, 
Elizabeth  G.  Stone,  Harriet  L.  Garratt,  Harriet  P. 
Leach  (Waterhouse),  Dorothy  B.  Dyer  (Stetson),  Pris- 
cie  C.  Eells,  Wealthy  M.  Magoun  (Hall),  Laura  Barker 
(Little),  Caroline  T.  Southworth  (Prouty),  Mary  C. 
Tolman  (Sheldon),  Agnes  Sherman,  Alberta  White 
(Hewson),  Maria  W.  Tolman,  Emma  H.  Torrey  (Bates), 
Henrietta  Collamore,  Nellie  D.  Collamore,  Mary  E. 
Clapp,  Anna  M.  Pratt  (Upham),  Mary  E.  Curtis,  Ber- 
tha L.  Buttrick  (Whiting),  Jennie  M.  Currell  (Cole- 
man),  Mary  A.  Hunt,  Annie  N.  Little. 

Of  those  who  have  taught  the  longest  we  recall  the 
following  names  :  Mary  E.  Barstow,  Mary  L.  Eells,  the 
Whiting  Sisters,  Mary  P.  Howland,  Anna  Tolman, 
Edward  Southworth. 


history  of  hanover  academy.  20i 

Something  Further  Respecting  the  Alumni  Fund. 

On  pages  122  — 124,  some  account  is  given  of  the 
raising  and  disposition  of  the  Alumni  Fund,  and  the 
statement  was  there  made  that  the  small  balance  re- 
maining in  the  hands  of  the  Trustees  would  probably 
be  given  to  the  Town  for  the  Public  Library.  Accord- 
ingly the  said  Trustees  have  since  conveyed  to  the  town 
-of  Hanover  the  sum  of  $270  as  a  permanent  fund  for 
said  Library,  with  the  understanding  that  the  income 
of  said  Fund  should  be  used  only  for  the  purchase  of 
books  of  permanent  value  (avoiding  ephemeral  works 
of  light  fiction)  and  that  all  books  purchased  from  said 
fund  should  be  thus  inscribed  : 

"  Purchased  from  the  income  of  the  Hanover  Acade- 
my Alumni  Fund,  conveyed  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Han- 
over P>ee  Library,  April  I,  1899,  by  the  Trustees  of 
said  Fund,  William  Carver  Bates  and  David  B.  Ford." 

There  has  recently  been  placed  in  my  hands  a  list  of 
those  who  subscribed  to  the  Alumni  Fund.  I  have  al- 
ready mentioned  two  persons.  Rev.  Samuel  Cutler  and 
Mrs.  Albert  Smith,  who  gave  $100  each.  Others  who 
gave  $100  apiece  are  : 

George  Curtis,  Fliza  Salmond,  Joseph  Smith,  and 
Edmund  O.  Sylvester.  James  R.  Smith  of  New  York 
city  gave  $50  ;  William  Carver  Bates,  Benjamin  B.  Tor- 
rey,  Herbert  Torrey,  Isaac  M.  Wilder,  Martin  P. 
McLauthlin,  Mrs.  Gardner,  Eugene  H.  Clapp,  Lemuel 
C.  Waterman,  Rudolphus  C.  Waterman,  and  Mrs.  Hora- 
tio Bigelow,  gave  $10  each  ;  Isaac  Wilder,  Robert  Bar- 
stow,  Morrill  A.  Phillips,  Mrs.  Farnham,  Sarah  E. 
Gushing,  Irenaeus  L.  Waterman,  and  George  Briggs 
gave  ^5  each  ;  Benjamin  Barstow  and  Warren  I.  Wright 


202  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER  ACADEMY. 

gave  ^3  each,  and  Mary  Barstow  ;^i.25.  It  will  be  no- 
ticed that  of  the  first  six  donors  above  mentioned,  who 
gave  the  largest  sums,  only  one,  E.  Q.  Sylvester,  was 
an  Academy  Alumnus,  and  that  all  are  now  deceased. 
It  is  probable  that,  of  the  Alumni  proper  who  gave  to 
the  Fund,  only  about  half  are  now  living.  We  may 
properly  state  that  the  movement  for  this  fund  was 
inaugurated  (not  in  i860,  as  the  types  have  it  on  page 
122,  but  in  1869),  and  carried  on  to  a  successful  issue 
largely  through  the  efforts  of  William  Carver  Bates. 

Our  Fallen  Heroes. 

"  The  muffled  drum's  sad  roll  has  beat 

The  soldiers'  last  tattoo; 
No  more  on  life's  parade  shall  meet 

That  brave  and  fallen  few." 

Died  in  the  Service. 

Joseph  Eells  Wilder,  of  Hanover  enlisted*  in  Co. 
D.,  31st  Regt.  Infantry,  Nov.  20,  1861,  while  a  student 
in   Amherst    College,   class  of  1863.      He  served  three 

*Enlisted,  as  used  in  these  notices,  means  generally  the  same  as 
enrolled  or  mustered  in.  The  dates  I  have  tnken  mainly  from  the 
"  Records  of  the  Massachusetts  Volunteers,"  Vols.  1,  11.  It  will  be 
seen  that  a  large  proportion  of  our  students  enlisted  in  what  may 
be  termed  the  "  Old  Colony  Regiment,"  the  iSth,  made  up  largely 
by  enlistments  from  Plymouth  County.  This  justly  famed  Regi- 
ment "  shared  in  the  battles  on  the  Peninsula,  and  was  engaged 
at  the  second  Bull  Run,  Shepherdstown,  Fredericksburg,  Chancel- 
lorsville,  Gettysburg,  Rappahannock  Station,  Wilderness,  Spott- 
sylvania.  Cold  Harbor,  Petersburg,  and  Weldon  Rail  Road.  The 
casualties  were  numerous,  and  the  regiment  suffered  severely — the 
killed  and  wounded  numbering  nearly  two  hundred  and  fiftj." 
The  historian  says  that  to  Hanover,  among  other  towns,  "  is  due 
the  origin  of  this  notably  excellent  Regiment." 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY 


203 


years  and  re-enlisted  Quarter  Master  Sergeant,  Feb- 
ruary II,  1864,  and  was  killed  while  in  charge  of  wagon 
train  on  the  Red  River'  Expedition  under  Gen.  Banks, 
at  Sabine  Cross  Roads,  La.,  April  8,  1864,  aged  25 
years.  In  laying  aside  his  cherished  studies  and 
professional  aims  at  his  country's  call,  few  men  have 
made  a  greater  sacrifice  than  he.  It  is  from  him  that 
the  Post  No.  83  G.  A.  R.  of  Hanover  is  worthily  named, 


JOSEPH    EELLS    WILDER. 

and  it    is    at  the  expense  of  this   Post  that   the  above 
picture  is  inserted. 

"  Wilder  in  his  unknown  grave  sleeps  well — fallen 
nobly,  fighting  for  his  country's  cause.  Ne'er  beat  a 
nobler  heart,  none  had  a  truer  friend — his  was  a  glo- 
rious death,  the  brave,  noble  heart  is  still — beneath  the 
•cypress  he  sleeps,  the  murmur  of  the  Red  River  his 
•only  requiem." — Tribute  of  C.  C.  Holmes,  Newberne, 
J  876. 


204  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

LoAMMi  B.  Sylvester,  of  Hanover,  enlisted  for  three- 
years,  Feb.  27,  1862,  in  Reg.  2,  Inf.  Co.  I.,  was  wounded 
in  the  battle  of  Cedar  Mountain,  Va.,  Aug  9,  1862,  and 
died  in  Alexandria,  Sept.  7,  1862,  aged  31  years. 

Benjamin  Curtis,  of  Hanover,  enlisted  August  6, 
1862,  in  1 2th  Regiment,  Company  G,  and  was  killed  at 
Antietam,  Md.,  September  17,  1862,  aged  22  years. 
*'A  thoughtful  young  man,  independent,  impulsive  and 
honest,  a  good  scholar  and  a  true  friend." — Hon.  Jed- 
ediah  Dwelley. 

Henry  Currell,  of  Scituate,  enlisted  August  14, 
1862,  in  39th  Infantry,  Company  C,  and  died  in  Ander- 
sonville  Prison,  Georgia,  September  14,  1864.* 

Nathaniel  Walter  Winslow,  of  S.  Scituate,  aged  22 
years,  enlisted  August  5,  1862,  in  Regiment  18,  Com- 
pany G,  and  was  killed  in  Shepardstown,  Va.,  Septem- 
ber 20,  1862,  while  swimming  across  a  river. 

William  C.  Oakman,  of  Marshfield,  aged  31,  enlisted 
August  19,  1862,  in  Regiment  35,  Company  C,  and  died 
on  exchange  boat  October  6,  1864,  of  wounds  received 
in  Poplar  Spring  Church,  Va.,  September  30,  1864. 

JosiAH  Stoddard,  Jr.,  of  So.  Scituate,  aged  23,  en- 
listed from  Marshfield  August  20,  1862,  and  died  in 
Stuart's  Hospital,  Baltimore,  November  19,  1862. 

Calvin  S.  Magoun,  of  Pembroke,  born  November  14, 
1839;  enlisted  October  9,  1861,  in  Regiment  23,  Com- 

*  Of  those  from  Plymouth  County  who  joined  this  regiment  a 
large  proportion  were  from  the  towns  of  Hingham,  Scituate  and 
S.  Scituate.  The  last  year  of  its  history  was  marked  by  heavy 
losses  in  killed,  wounded  and  prisoners.  The  39th  was  present  at 
the  surrender  of  Gen.  Lee  at  Appomatox,  Sunday,  April  9,  18G5. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  205 

pany  A.  Discharged  for  disability  June  i,  1862.  He 
was  in  the  Burnside's  Expedition  and  was  at  the  taking 
of  Roanoke  Island  and  of  Newbern,  where  he  was  taken 
sick.  After  spending  some  time  in  the  hospital  he  was 
given  a  furlough  and  sought  to  return  home,  but  died 
June  19,  1862,  of  typhoid  pneumonia,  in  the  cars  on 
the  Norwich  train,  between  New  York  and  Boston. 

"  On  Fame's  eternal  camping  ground 

Their  silent  tents  are  spread, 
And  Glorv  guards  with  solemn  round 

The  bivouac  of  the  dead." 

Other  of  Our  Enlisted  Alumni. 

Joseph  F.  Stetson,  of  Hanover,  aged  21,  enlisted  in 
Regt.  18,  Co.  G.,  Aug.  24,  1861,  re-enlisted  Jan.  i,  1864, 
Regt.  32,  Co.  M.  Sergt. 

George  F.  Stetson,  of  So.  Scituate,  aged  25,  en- 
listed Aug.  5,  1861,  Regt.  18,  Co.  G.,  re-enlisted  Jan.  2, 
1864,  transferred  Oct.  26,  1864,  to  32d  Inf.  Co.  L.  Corp. 

Edward  Southworth,  of  So.  Scituate,  aged  24,  en- 
listed July  31,  1862,  Regt.  1 8th,  Co.  G.,  discharged 
Sept.  21,  1863,  order  War  Department  to  receive  an 
appointment  as  Second  Lieutenant  in  the  2d  Regt,  U. 
S.  colored  troops.  Promoted  to  First  Lieut.  Oct  6, 
1864,  and  to  Regimental  Quartermaster,  April  14,  1865, 
was  honorably  discharged  Aug.,  1865,  on  account  of 
injuries  received  while  in  the  service.  He  was  in  the 
battles  of  Antietam,  Sharpsburg,  Fredericksburg,  Chan- 
cellorsville  and  Gettysburg. 

George  H.  Clapp,  of  So.  Scituate,  aged  21,  enlisted 
in  Regt.  i8th  Co.  G.,  July  31,  1862,  re-enlisted  Feb.  9, 
1864,  transferred  Oct.  26,  1864,  to  32d  Inf.  Co.  C. 


206  HISTORY  OF  HANOVER  ACADEMY. 

Charles  Tolman,  of  So.  Scituate,  aged  19,  enlisted 
Regt.  i8th,  Co.  G.,  Aug.  5,  1862,  discharged  Jan.  10, 
1863,  through  disability. 

Lebbeus  Stockbridge,  of  Hanover,  aged  35,  enlisted 
in  Regt.  2d,  Co.  K.,  May  25,  1861  ;  promoted  Sergeant 
Major,  Nov.  i,  1862. 

George  C.  Dwellev,  of  Hanover,  aged  22,  enlisted 
in  Regt.  4th,  Co.  I.,  May  22,  1861,  for  three  months,  re- 
enlisted  Aug.  2,  1862,  in  Regt.  12th,  Co.  G.,  for  three 
years.  Transferred  Sept  i,  1863  to  V.  R.  C.  (Veteran 
Reserve  Corps.) 

William  H.  Bates,  of  Hanover,  aged  25,  enlisted 
Aug.  20,  1862,  Regt.  38th,  Co.  K.,  Corp.  Discharged 
July  9,  1863,  for  disability. 

Melzar  C.  Bailey,  of  Hanover,  aged  23,  enlisted  3d 
Regt.  of  Cavalry,  Co.  D.,  Sept.  6,  1862,  re-enlisted  Aug. 
9,  1864,  I  St  Battalion  Heavy  Artillery,  Co.  E. 

Cyrus  C.  Holmes,  of  Hanover,  aged  24,  enlisted  Regt. 
i8th,  Co.  G.,  Aug.  24,  1 861,  Sergt.  Discharged  Oct. 
23,  1863,  for  disability,  having  been  wounded  in  second 
battle  of  Bull  Run. 

Robert  S.  Church,  of  Hanover,  aged  20,  enlisted 
for  9  months,  Sept.  12,  1862,  Regt.  43d,  Co.  G.  Elected 
Capt.  Military  Co.,  District  No.  62,  Jan.  16,  1865. 

William  Carver  Bates,  aged  22,  enlisted  May  i, 
1861,  for  three  months,  Regt,  5,  Co.  G..  taken  prisoner 
July  21,  1 86 1,  exchanged  1862. 

Thomas  B.  Holmes,  aged  17,  enlisted  Sept  21,  1861,, 
in  Regt.  24th,  Co.  E.,  musician. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  207 

Thomas  D.  Brooks,  of  Hanover,  aged  21,  enlisted 
Aug.  ID,  1864,  1st  Batt.  Heavy  Artillery,  Co.  E. 

George  B.  Oldham,  of  Hanover,  aged  23,  enlisted 
August  20,  1862,  in  Regiment  38,  Company  K;  pro- 
moted Sergeant,  February,  1864. 

Oren  T.  Whiting,  of  Hanover,  aged  28,  enlisted 
September  23,  1862,  in  Regiment  3,  Company  A,  for 
three  months.  Re-enlisted  for  three  years  August  9, 
1864,  in  1st  Battery,  Heavy  Artillery,  Company  E. 
Corp. 

Nathaniel  Cushing  of  Hanover,  aged  18,  enlisted 
February  i,  1864,  4th  Regiment  of  Cavalry,  Com- 
pany K. 

George  W.  Whiting,  of  Pembroke,  aged  22,  enlisted 
September  2,  1862,  in  Regiment  39,  Company  G  ;  dis- 
charged for  disability  February  8,  1864. 

Frank  T.  Whiting,  of  Pembroke,  aged  21,  enlisted 
September  2,  1862,  in  Regiment  39,  Company  G. 

William  C.  Litchfield,  of  So.  Scituate,  aged  24,  en- 
listed August  10,  1864,  ist  Battalion,  Heavy  Artillery, 
Company  E. 

Augustus  Jacobs,  of  So.  Scituate,  aged  21,  enlisted 
September  12,  1862,  Regiment  44,  Company  D,  for 
nine  months. 

F-^lisha  W.  Lapham,  of  So.  Scituate,  aged  18,  en- 
listed Aug.  24,  1 86 1,  Regt.  18,  Co.  G.  Discharged  for 
disability  Oct.  25,  1862. 

Abner  L.  Stetson,  of  So.  Scituate,  aged  18,  enlisted 
Aug.  4,  1862,  Regt.  1 8th,  Co.  G.,  discharged  for  disa- 
bility, March  9,  1863. 


208  HISTORY    OF    HAxNOVER    ACADEMY. 

Albert  W.  Curtis,  of  Pembroke,  aged  21,  enlisted 
Aug  24,  1861,  Regt.  i8th,  Co.  G.,  re-enlisted  Jan.  2, 
1864,  Corp.  Transferred  Oct.  26,  1864,  to  Regt.  32d,. 
Infantry,  Co.  I, 

John  F.  Hatch,  of  Marshfield,  aged  18,  enlisted 
Sept.  12,  1862,  Regt.  43d,  Co.  F.,  for  9  months. 

Edward  R.  Church,  of  Pembroke,  aged  25,  enlisted 
Sept.  23,  1862,  in  Regt.  4th,  Co.  I,  for  3  months,  Corp. 
(This  company  saw  very  hard  service  in  Louisiana.) 

Elisha  F.  Coleman,  of  So.  Scituate,  aged  19,  enlisted 
Nov.  14,  1861,  in  Regt.  32,  Co.  A.  Discharged  March 
2,  1863,  for  disability. 

JuDSON  EwELL,  of  Marshficld,  enlisted  Jan.  27,  1862, 
in  Co.  G.  Second  District  of  Columbia  Volunteers.  He 
was  in  the'  battle  of  Antietam,  and  was  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  Sergeant. 

Rudolph  C.  Waterman,  of  Scituate,  aged  22,  enlisted 
Sept.  12,  1862,  in  Regt.  44,  Co.  D.,  for  9  months,  Corp. 

Horace  S.  Tower,  of  Hanover,  aged  18,  enlisted 
Feb.  18,  1864,  in  4th  Regt.  of  Cavalry,  Co.  L.  Corp. 

James  L.  Hunt,  aged  33,  enlisted  Regt.  35,  Co.  H, 
Aug.  19,  1862.   Discharged  May  11,  1865,  for  disability. 

Charles  B.  Phillips,  of  Marshfield,  a  graduate  at 
West  Point,  saw  some  service  in  the  field. 

George  Baker,  of  Marshfield,  aged  30,  enlisted 
March  30,  1863,  Regt.  54,  Co.  C. 

Frank  Baker,  whom  we  have  previously  noticed^ 
served  with  his  Regiment,  (the  13th  Infantry)  in  va- 
rious parts  of  the  United  States.  In  1879  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  Ordnance  Department  of  the  army. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  2O9 

Frederick  W.  Clapp,  in  service  from  Sept.,  1862 
until  July,  1863,  Regt.  43d,  Co.  G. 

John  Corthell,  enlisted  Aug.  7,  1862,  Regt.  39th, 
Co.  G.,  and  was  discharged  at  the  end  of  the  war,  Ju  ne 
8,  1865. 

George  H,    Sampson    was  high  private,  U.  S.    Vols. 

Edwin  J.  Chandler,  enlisted  1862 — 6^^  I  think,  from 
Duxbury. 

George  A.  Collamore,  AI.  D.,  served  in  the  war  as 
surgeon  of  looth  Regt.,  Ohio  Volunteers. 


Entered  the  Navy. 

Haviland  Barstow,  Gustavus  Percival,  Robert  S.  Tal- 
bot, Zephaniah  Talbot,  Henry  H.  Collamore,  Robert  E. 
Barstow,  Edward  P.   Stetson.* 

The  following  poetical  tribute  to  the  Soldiers  and 
Sailors  who  enlisted  and  who  fell  in  the  war  for  the 
preservation  of  the  Union  was  written  by  Mrs.  Rev. 
Cyrus  W.  Allen  for  the  Grand  Army  Fair,  October 
16 — 18,  1877,  which  was  held  to  procure  the  Soldiers' 
Monument  in  Hanover.  We  subjoin  it  here  because  in 
the  main  it  is  appropriate  to  this  section  of  our  work, 
and  because  we  deem  it  worthy  to  be  placed  on  perma- 
nent historic  record. 

*Some  acount  of  Haviland  Barstow  is  given  by  "William  C  Bates 
in  the  Soldiers'  Memorial.  Henry  H.  Collamore  was  in  the  Navy 
from  January  10,  1863  to  Sept  19,  186.5,  at  first  as  Acting  Master's 
Mate,  the  last  year  as  Acting  Ensign. 


210  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 


MRS.   C.   W,   ALLEN. 

Hark  !  heard  ye  not  the  tliunder  loud, 
Echo  along  our  southern  shore  ? 

Saw  ye  the  lightning  in  the  cloud  ? 
Heard  ye  the  sullen  ocean's  roar  ? 

Surely  a  tempest  must  be  near  ! 

Seek  shelter  from  the  coming  storm ; 
God  keep  jour  wives  and  children  dear, 

Secure  amid  the  dread  alarm  ! 

But  look  !  the  sky  is  clear  and  bright, 
The  gentle  breezes  softly  blow  ; 

No  cloud  obscures  the  sun's  fair  light, 
All  nature  smiles  beneath  its  glow. 

What  means  this  rumbling  from  afar  '^ 
What  trouble  does  this  noise  portend  ? 

It  means  the  approach  of  civil  war 

Where  men  with  brother  men  contend. 

From  East  to  West,  from  North  to  South, 
The  electric  wire  the  news  conveys  ; 

The  message  goes  from  mouth  to  mouth — 
"  Fort  Sumter's  taken  !  rouse  ye  braves  !' 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVFR    ACADEMY.  211 

Could  we  sit  tamely  by,  and  see 

The  flag  our  fathers  gave  in  trust 
To  proudly  wave  o'er  land  and  sea 

Lie  low  and  trailing  in  the  dust  ? 

Could  we  sit  by  and  see  the  States, 

United  once,  asunder  torn  ? 
The  chains  that  bound  our  fellow  men 

Made  still  more  grievous  to  be  borne  ? 

For  months  the  South  had  been  employed 

Arming  themselves  to  meet  this  hour  ; 
And  aided  by  the  rebel  Floyd 

Were  ready  to  assert  their  power. 

In  vain  our  Lincoln,  good  and  wise, 

The  folly  of  their  course  exposed  ; 
In  vain  all  terms  of  compromise, 

In  Congress,  Crittenden  proposed. 

*  Let  us  alone,"  their  leaders  cried, 

"  We'll  stand  alone,"  they  loudly  boast  ; 
And  added  with  a  scornful  pride 

"  We'll  take  your  forts  upon  our  coast." 

Then  burst  upon  our  startled  ear 

The  booming  cannon's  loud  report  ; 
On  every  side  the  guns  we  hear 

Firing  against  the  fated  fort. 

The  little  famished  loyal  band 

Fought  bravely  to  defend  their  flag, 
How  could  they  see  the  Stars  and  Stripes 

Supplanted  by  the  rebel  rag  ! 

All  honor  to  the  noble  few 

Who  held  the  fort  so  long  and  well  ! 
To  them  the  victor's  crown  is  due 

Unconqiiered,  though  their  fortress  fell. 

"  Fort  Sumter's  taken  1"     At  the  word 

The  people  rose  with  sudden  start, 
All  party  feuds  were  laid  aside, 

Hand  joined  with  hand  and  heart  with  heart. 


212  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

And  when  the  summons  issued  forth 
From  Washington  for  arms  and  men, 

It  found  the  people  of  the  North 

Prepared  to  meet  the  summons  then. 

The  old  Bay  State,  with  eager  zeal 
As  ever,  foremost  for  the  right. 

Sent  forth  her  armies  to  the  field 
For  freedom  and  for  truth  to  fight. 

What  other  State  upon  its  page 
Such  record  as  our  own  can  show 

Of  Statesmen  true,  of  soldiers  brave 

To  Union  pledged,  come  weal,  come  woe  ? 

The  noble  men  of  long  ago 

Are  treasured  in  our  memory  yet ; 

What  soldiers  who  have  faced  the  foe 
Sumner  or  Andrew  can  forget  ? 

The  fountain  that  poured  forth  its  flood 
At  Lexington  in  days  of  yore, 

Is  still  as  pure,  and  gave  its  blood 
To  cleanse  the  streets  of  Baltimore. 

Our  own  fair  town  of  Pilgrim  stock 
Was  not  a  whit  behind  the  rest ; 

Unflinching  as  her  Plymouth  Rock, 
She  gave  her  bravest  and  her  best. 

From  every  rank,  from  every  lot 

Her  men  were  marshalled  for  the  .strife  ; 

From  mansion  proud,  from  humble  cot, 
They  came  to  save  the  nation's  life. 

They  left  their  homes,  a  noble  band 
In  health  and  youthful  vigor  strong. 

To  save  from  death  their  native  land. 
Maintain  the  right,  put  down  the  wrong. 

Though  firm  and  fearless,  who  can  tell 
The  anguish  of  the  parting  hour  ? 

When  called  to  say  the  last  farewell 
To  meet,  perchance,  on  earth  no  more. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY  213 

Then  rose  to  Heaven  the  earnest  prayer 

That  God  their  loved  ones  would  defend, 
Would  guard  them  with  his  tender  care, 

And  keep  them  safely  to  the  end. 

Then  came  the  real  "  tug  of  war," 

The  daily  drill  in  fort  and  camp, 
The  toilsome  march  to  scenes  afar, 

The  sentry's  lonely  midnight  tramp. 

The  battlefield,  the  scanty  fare, 

The  dreadful  work  of  shot  and  shell, 
The  sickening  swamp,  the  tainted  air, 

The  nurse's  ward,  the  prison  cell. 

Not  those  alone  who  risked  their  lives 

In  mountain  gorge  or  Southern  plain, 
But  mothers,  sisters,  daughters,  wives 

Had  their  full  share  of  grief  and  pain. 

The  waiting  for  the  Daily  News, 

To  read  of  battles  lost    or    won, 
Dreading  its  columns  to  peruse 

Lest  they  report  some  loved  one  gone. 

What  sorrows  brings  the  message  brief  ! 

The  awful  waste  of  human  life  ; 
The  gentle  maiden's  untold  grief. 

The  childless  home,  the  widowed  wife. 

The  God  of  battles  was  their  trust, 

What  need  had  they  to  be  afraid.^ 
God  on  their  side,  their  cause  was  just, 

On  him  their  fainting  hearts  were  stayed. 

He  heard  in  Heaven  the  bitter  cries 

Of  those  in  bonds— He  saw  their  pain; 
There  needed  some  great  sacrifice 

To  purge  the  nation  from  its  stain. 

The  victory's  won  !     The  war  is  o'er  ! 

All  honor  to  the  soldiers  brave  ! 
United  vStates  we  stand  once  more, 

Land  of  the  free,  without  a  slave. 


214  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

Four  million  slaves,  as  cattle  driven, 
Now  walk  erect  as  freemen  bold, 

Their  chains  are  broke,  their  bonds  are  riven, 
No  more  can  they  be  bought  or  sold. 

The  Flag  that  for  a  hundred  years 
Has  been  an  emblem  of  the  free 

Now  floats  again  o'er  every  State 

O'er  North  and  South,  from  sea  to  sea. 

But  where  are  those,  so  stout  of  heart, 
Wholeft  us  when  the  war  begun  .^ 

Those  who  so  nobly  bore  their  part 

Where  are  they  now  the  victory's  won  ? 

Go,  read  the  Records  of  your  town  ! 

What's  written  'gainst  each  soldier's  name, 
Of  suffering  borne,  of  actions  done, 

Should  place  it  on  the  roll  of  fame. 

The  mournful  Record  says  of  o;ie, 

"  At  Sabine  Cross  Roads  he  was  killed," 

Of  others,  "  Died  at  Baton  Rouge," 

For  them  with  grief  our  hearts  are  filled. 

Cane  River,  Richmond,  Antietam 
The  Wilderness  and  New  Orleans, 

The  Hospital,  the  Prison  van 

And  Petersburg  saw  parting  scenes. 

Point  Lookout,  Alexandria 

And  Morgan's  Bend  sad  tales  can  tell 

Of  those  our  friends  and  comrades  true 
Who  in  the  cause  of  Freedom  fell. 

And  some  upon  the  ocean  wave 

The  Record  says,  laid  down  their  lives, 

The  seaman  as  the  soldier  brave 
Offered  a  willing  sacrifice. 

.      The  rebel  gunboat  Merrimac 

Found  men  who  by  their  flag  would  stand, 
When  by  its  murderous  attack. 

The  Congress  sunk,  and  Cumberland. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  215 

Full  well  that  father  knew  his  son 

As  he  in  pride  and  sorrow  said, 
When  told  the  flag  was  taken  down, 

■'It  must  be,  then,  that  Joe  is  dead."* 

Such  was  the  stuff  that  made  our  men 

Invincible  on  land  and  sea. 
That  made  our  country  what  it  is, 

"  Land  of  the  Brave,  Home  of  the  Free." 

A  debt  of  gratitude  we  owe 

To  those  who  died  that  we  might  live  ; 
How  can  we  our  affection  show  ? 

What  tribute  to  their  memory  give  ? 

By  us  they'll  never  be  forgot, 

But7£;t'  shall  soon  have  passed  away, 
Others  will  rise  who  knew  them  not ; 

Then  let  us  our  sad  tribute  pay. 

To  them  a  Monument  we'll  raise 

That  shall  endure  when  we  are  gone 
To  tell  their  deeds  in  notes  of  praise 

To  generations  yet  unborn. 

The"  Boston  Monument  "  will  stand 

An  honor  to  the  city's  heart. 
The  glow  of'pride  that  filled  the  land 

Will  never  from  our  breasts  depart. 

We  would  in  our  more  humble  way 

The  example  follow  Boston  set, 
And  raise'a  monument  to  say 

0/(r  Heroes  we  will  ne'er  forget. 


*  The  fullest  and  most  authentic  account  of  the  destruction  of  the 
'•  Congress,"  which  I  have  seen,  is  that  by  Frederick  H.  Curtis,  who 
was  a  Hanover  boy  and  a  gunner  of  that  vessel.  This  account  is 
given  by  another  Hanover  citizen,  Frank  S.  Alger,  in  the  New  England 
Magazine  for  February,  1899.  I  scarcely  need  say  that  the  father  of  Jo- 
seph B.  Smith,  the  Captain  of  the  Congress,  was  Admiral  Joseph  Smith 
who  was  a  native  of  Hanover. 


2l6  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

Consult  the  Record  book  once  more  ; 

What  says  it  of  the  remnant  left  ? 
"  Disabled,  wounded,  sick  and  sore, 

Of  health  and  all  its  joys  bereft." 
For  blessings  which  we  dearly  prize 

Our  soldiers  we  can  ne'er  repay, 
But  let  us  do  what  in  us  lies 

To  prove  our  love  without  delay. 
Oh,  let  us  rear  within  our  State 

A  home  for  those  who  need  our  care. 
Amid  our  own  beloved  scenes, 

Our  hills  and  vales,  our  native  air. 

The  homesick  soldier  needs  to  rest 

Where  he  can  meet  the  friends  he  loves. 
May  he  with  such  a  home  be  blest 

And  never  more  be  forced  to  rove. 
And  now  the  Olive  Branch  of  peace 

Waves  o'er  our  land  from  shore  to  shore, 
May  strife  and  all  contention  cease, 

And  wars  and  fightings  be  no  more. 
'Y\\t  patriot  spirit  has  not  fled, 

We  love  our  country  and  her  laws. 
In  memory  of  our  honored  dead 

We  pledge  ourselves  to  freedom's  cause. 
May  Justice,  Temperance,  Truth  and  Love 

O'er  all  our  land  have  perfect  sway, 
May  He  who  rules  in  Heaven  above 

Lead  every  heart  in  wisdom's  way. 
Then  shall  the  land  that  gave  us  birth 

By  righteousness  exalted  be 
Among  the  nations  of  the  earth — 

"Land  of  the  Brave,  Home  of  the  Free." 


history  of  hanover  academy.  21/ 

Conclusion. 

It  is  with  feelings  of  sadness  that  we  have  to  say  the 
Hanover  Academy  is  now  permanently  closed.  The 
property  is  indeed  leased  to  the  town  for  school  pur- 
poses, and  we  trust  it  will  be  so  used  in  the  future,  but 
it  will  never  be  Hanover  Academy.  The  founders  of 
this  Academy  and  those  who  contributed  towards  the 
erection  of  our  beautiful  building  never  expected  or 
dreamed  of  such  a  result  as  this.  Let  us  listen  again 
to  some  words  from  the  dedication  address  of  Rev.  Mr. 
Dyer.  ''  Your  work,"  he  says,  "  contemplates  blessing 
not  one  neighborhood  only,  but  many.  The  structure 
you  have  reared  is  substantial.  You  expect  the  feet  of 
more  than  one  generation  of  youths  will  cross  its  thresh- 
old to  obtain  instruction  within  its  consecrated  walls. 
And  doubtless,  long  after  most  of  you  who  have  been 
deeply  interested  and  actively  engaged  in  its  erection 
shall  have  been  gathered  to  your  fathers,  this  noble  edi- 
fice, standing  where  you  have  reared  it,  and  proffering 
the  advantages  of  an  Academic  education  to  all,  will 
welcome  to  its  halls  a  multitude  of  those  who  shall 
come  after  you  on  the  journey  of  life.  Your  children's 
children  will  eat  the  fruit  of  the  tree  you  have  planted, 
and  sit  down  under  its  shadow  with  great  delight.  And 
this  institution,  so  cherished  by  you  who  have  furnished 
to  learning  this  beautiful  asylum,  will  exert  on  this  com- 
munity its  enlightening,  elevating,  refining  influences, 
possibly  till  tJiey  themselves  shall  cease  to  be  any  longer 
interested  in  all  that  is  done  under  the  sun.  ...  As 
friends  of  Education  and  lovers  of  our  race,  we  cannot 
help  casting  our  eye  down  the  long  vista  of  the  future 
to  contemplate  the  blessings  which  will  flow  from  this 
humble  seat  of  learning  to  generations  yet  unborn." 


2l8  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

But  it  may  be  asked  if  the  blessings  thus  contem- 
plated and  hoped  for  will  not  be  secured  if  this  property 
shall  forever  be  devoted,  as  we  hope  it  may  be,  to  pub- 
lic school  uses.*  Doubtless  this  would  be  so  in  part, 
but  no  public  school  in  its  influence  can  exactly  fill  the 
place  of  an  Academy.  For  a  student  to  leave  the  pub- 
lic school  for  a  private  school  of  a  high  grade  where  he 
or  his  parents  or  guardians  would  have  to  pay  money,  is 
a  much  more  important  step  than  to  leave  one  common 
school  for  another,  even  though  the  latter  be  of  a  higher 
grade.  Such  a  step  has  been  to  many  even  in  our  com- 
munity a  turning  point  for  life,  inasmuch  as  it  supposes 
or  will  naturally  beget  a  purpose  and  determination  to 
study  by  putting  forth  some  special  efforc  and  at  some 
personal  cost.  And  then  the  personnel  of  such  private 
school  and  the  esprit  de  corps  of  such  school  companion- 
ship are  naturally  of  a  higher  kind,  and  are  different  in 
quality  and  degree  from  what  our  public  schools  com- 
monly or  naturally  yield.  Such  private  schools  and 
academies,  pervaded  as  generally  in  the  past  with  a 
Christian  spirit  and  influence,  have  thus  done  a  great 
and  blessed  work  in  the  world.  Professor  Cecil  F.  P. 
Bancroft,  who  has  just  finished  a  quarter  centennial  as 
Principal  of    Phillips    Andover  Academv,    says:  ''The 

*  We  understand  that  the  Salmond  heirs,  who  own  nearly  half 
the  Academic  property  are  willing,  in  order  that  the  same  be  not 
wholly  diverted  from  its  original  school  purposes,  to  donate  their 
share  to  the  town  for  a  permanant  public  school.  It  is  also  thought 
that  several  other  stockholders  are  willing  to  dispose  of  their  part 
of  the  property  in  a  similar  manner.  Should  this  plan  be  carried 
out,  I  should  favor  the  suggestion  which  has  been  made  that  this 
should  be  called  the  "Salmond  School."  We  should  then  have 
two  schools  in  town,  this  and  the  new  "Curtis  School"  on  Main  St., 
which  would  be  worthily  named. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  2I9 

Academies  are  now  doing  for  the  whole  country,  es- 
pecially for  territory  not  reached  by  the  public  high 
school,  and  for  individuals  in  all  parts  of  the  land,  a 
work  which  no  other  agency  has  been  found  to  do  equal- 
ly well.  An  Academy,  protected  from  political,  pa- 
rental and  local  interference,  does  its  work  for  boys  and 
girls  separated  to  a  studious  life,  wdth  a  singleness  of  re- 
sponsibility for  the  entire  time  and  the  entire  nurture 
of  the  pupils  which  a  public  school  cannot  and  ought 
not  to  assume,  and  develops  an  independence  of  charac- 
ter which  is  the  best  preparation  for  a  successful  career. 
Most  of  the  Academies  were  planted  under  religious 
motives  and  the  note  of  Christian  character  is  domi- 
nant." 

But  times  have  changed.  ''High  schools"  are  now 
established  in  almost  every  tow^n,  and  Normal  schools 
in  many  of  our  counties,  and  thus  private  schools  and 
academies,  unless  amply  funded,  must  naturally  suffer 
and  decline  and  cease  to  be.  An  Academy  can  now 
live  and  flourish  only  as  it  has  an  endowment  well  nigh 
equal  to  that  of  an  ordinary  college.  We  have  a  few, 
and  only  a  few,  of  such  secondary  schools  at  present  in 
our  Commonwealth,  while  most  of  our  old  and  even 
once  flourishing  academies  are  now  things  of  the  past. 
But  these  academies  did  not  all  die  easily;  at  least  Han- 
over Academy  did  not.  Since  my  connection  with  it  in 
its  decline  and  decease,  I  have  found  that  its  branches 
overshadowed  the  land,  and  that  its  roots  extended  to 
the  remotest  States  of  the  Union.  Again  and  again, 
yea,  often  have  I  been  surprised  at  receiving  letters 
from  the  most  distant  States  asking  for  information, 
circulars  and  catalogues.  With  a  comparatively  slight 
endowment,    such  as  I  have  repeatedly  sought  to  gain, 


220  HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY. 

Hanover  Academy,  with  its  amazing  vitality,  might  be 
in  a  flourishing  condition  not  only  to  this  day  but  for 
many  years  to  come.  I  should  be  glad  to  think  that 
this  Academy  might  possibly  be  revived.  Some  Acad- 
emies are  being  thus  reopened,  like  that  at  Milton, 
which  has  just  celebrated  its  centennial.  It  was  closed 
in  1866  when  the  Milton  High  School  was  established, 
but  in  1884  it  was  reopened  and  now  has  a  list  of  135 
pupils.  And  President  Eliot  of  Harvard  University 
said  at  this  celebration  that  "  this  revival  of  academies 
has  gone  on  in  many  other  parts  of  New  England,  and 
that  the  academy  was  never  so  strong  in  our  country  as 
it  is  to-day."  But  as  J  have  said,  most  of  our  acade- 
mies are  things  of  the  past,  and  will  not  appear  again, 
though  their  influence  will  never  cease  to  be.  Let  us 
be  thankful  for  their  past  existence,  and  for  the  great 
and  good  work  which  they  accomplished  in  their  gener- 
ation. Let  us  also  be  thankful  that  our  humble  Hano- 
ver Academy  has  no  slight  share  in  this  great  and 
good  work  accomplished. 

William  P.  Duncan,  Esq.,  "  a  former  pupil,"  under 
date  of  Cambridge,  Sept.  i,  1898,  sends  us  the  following 
lines  on 


The  Passing  of  Hanover   Academy, 

When  we  were  young,  when  we  were  young, 

Impatient  of  the  years, 
We  did  not  care  in  youth  so  fair, 

To  trace   life's  hopes  and  fears. 
Now  we  are  old,  now  we  are  old, 

Our  memory  scans  the  past, 
And  days  of  yore,  we  live  them  o'er, 

Too  beautiful  to  last. 


HISTORY    OF    HANOVER    ACADEMY.  221 

The  classic  school  in  grove  so  cool, 

In  rural  town  of  old, 
In  thought  we  greet,  again  we  meet 

Our  playmates  gay  and  bold. 
How  doth  it  seem  but  as  a  dream 

Or  "  weavers'  shuttle  "  swift, 
The  passing  on  of  time  agone 

As  lightning  through  the  rift. 

Now  we  are  old,  now  we  are  old, 

The  school  has  ceased  to  be. 
Our  hearts  will  burn,  oft  as  we  turn 

In  retrospection  free. 
Yet  now  farewell  !     We  break  the  spell 

Of  memory  fond  and  true  ; 
Sweet  classic  shades  !  our  vision  fades, 

We  sadly  say  adieu. 


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